Social.coop: Mastadon, Loomio, and wiki bylaws

Overview

I’m a member of Social.coop, a cooperatively governed instance of Mastodon, a twitter-like federated network. We currently rely on three separate platforms for our governance: Loomio, where we discuss and make decisions; a wiki that holds the bylaws by which we interpret governance events that happen on Loomio; and Social.coop itself, where decisions are implemented. In this use-case, Metagov helps connect these tools so that governance processes are more streamlined and automated.

Flow 1: User Ban

  • A proposal is made in Loomio to ban a user from the system
  • Metagov queries the Bylaws and posts to the thread what kind of vote is required for the decision to be validated
  • Discussions on the #discuss[number] hashtag on the Mastodon instance are linked to in Loomio
  • Users vote on Loomio. When it reaches the threshold in the bylaws, the user is removed from Loomio and Mastodon.

Flow 2: Bylaw amendment

  • A user creates a proposal on Loomio for an amendment to the bylaws
  • Metagov queries the Bylaws and posts to the thread what kind of vote is required for the decision to be validated
  • Discussions on the #discuss[number] hashtag on the Mastodon instance are linked to in Loomio
  • Users vote on Loomio. When it reaches the threshold in the bylaws, the bylaws are updated on Metagov (in natural language and code?)

Hope this helps!

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