Work continues apace.
Updates on our progress in constructing the League.
We are rapidly approaching the point of having our first joinable communities, and we have designed and agreed upon a governance structure that is working well so far. Our decision-making body, the League Stewards, is currently 29 people; once the system is operational, it will be open to:
- any person who has acted, or is currently acting as a node's staff member at the time of League formalization, or
- any person vetted by the existing Stewards to become a node's staff member within the League, or
- any person with a relevant skillset, previous experience, or other characteristics that would contribute to the League's health and continuation, or
- any person that does not fit into the prior three categories, but is otherwise agreed to by consensus of the existing Stewards.
Our developers are working on finishing both a patch set for GoToSocial (to remove numbers, timelines, and so on) and a setup guide, to make it easy for those who wish to run their own League sites. On the social side of things, we are finalizing our instance operator code of conduct, our user code of conduct (i.e. the shared ruleset, based on Cohost's), and we will be working on conflict resolution and accountability systems.
In addition to our website, our newsletter, our GoToSocial announcement instance, and the Discord server that our efforts are presently coordinated with, we have two new sites that are open for public viewing:
Information
Information is our wiki. It's where we'll be putting information on the League and how to participate: guides for node setup, guides for moderators and operators (including their individual legal obligations as people running a small social media site), our operator/moderator code of conduct, information on publicly available nodes, information about League governance, and more. Anyone who is participating in the project can edit Information.
Consensus
Consensus is our decision-making and consensus-finding system. It's an instance of a piece of software called Loomio, which was designed by a worker's cooperative specifically for organizations like ours. So far, it's proven incredibly useful, and is making it much easier to gauge the opinions of the League Stewards and decide our course going forward.
All are welcome to take a look at either of these sites, and our Discord, to see how our efforts are going, or to participate. We are building something new, and though we can reasonably expect to face a variety of struggles in this process, we are all excited about it.