• an [[essay]].
  • [[draft]].
  • I've been meaning to write this for a good while.
  • I sometimes think the second chapter about the Agora in the first [[book]] of [[Flancia]] will be called [[An Agora, or Building Bridges]].
  • See also:
    • #pull [[Agora Chapter]]
    • #pull [[Beyond Markdown and Git]]
    • #pull [[Social Coop Bridge]]

All bridges, it seems to me, start as [[desire paths]] in the sky; like most of the interesting things we find in the space made up of the intelligently-made universe that tends to surround us (what a privilege), they were plans before they materialized.

#Flancia, or [[building bridges]]

• The heart of the [[Agora]] is a protocol for [[building bridges]].
  • #pull [[on building bridges]] [[build bridges]] [[flancia or building bridges]]
  • #pull [[agora protocol]] [[free, fair and alive]]

• a [[collective]].
  • [[flancia]] [[matrix room]]
    • #go https://matrix.to/#/#flancia:matrix.org
    • room is [[open]] now, "official membership" to be defined by the collective
  • [[open collective]] https://opencollective.com/flancia
    • within the [[flancia collective]] we track [[projects]] as a team and execute them in the open.
      • we [[work in public]]
        • #pull [[open source]] [[open ethics]]
      • [[matrix]] https://matrix.to/#/#flancia:matrix.org?via=matrix.org
      • [[telegram]] https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=g421619990
    • [[flancia social impact]] exists in the [[us]] thanks to [[vera]]
  • [[members]] (roughly in order of joining)
    • [[flancian]]
    • [[vera]]
    • [[karlicoss]]
    • [[metasj]]
    • [[abstract fairy]]
    • [[neil]]
    • [[mohammed]]
    • [[luciana]]
    • [[j0lms]]
    • [[will]]
    • [[jack kausch]]
• reach out to a member of the collective if you are interested in joining!
  • you can opt out of the collective at any moment for any reason. [[flancia]] is fully optional!
  • the matrix room is open to anyone to join
• if you are otherwise interested with [[cooperating]] with the [[flancia collective]], we are very interested! We strive to be [[prosocial]].
  • Please reach out to [[vera]] or [[flancian]] or any of the other members.
    • our [[goals]]:
  • [[public utility]]
    • [[effective altruism]]
    • our [[projects]]:
    • [[agora]]
      • if you would like to [[join the agora]], please join [[agora discuss]]
    • [[promnesia]]
    • [[wikilinks everywhere]]
    • [[moa]]
  • your project could be here!
• [[push]] [[flancia]]
  • a [[thing]] in [[flancia]].
  • #pull [[flancia discuss]]

Flancia Collective

My take, which is just one of many: I think/hope Flancia Collective is and can be:

[[Commoner]]s. Purveyors of [[Liberatory technology]] and [[Convivial tools]].

[[revolutionary socialist]], [[Anti-capitalist]], [[anarchist]].

Rhizomatic. ([[rhizome]])

Positive and social. Feminist. Caring.

A bit weird. With hat tips to Dadaists ([[Dadaism]]), Surrealists ([[Surrealism]]), Situationists ([[Situationism]]) et al.

Enemies of [[Moloch]]. Fans of [[protopia]].

A distributed, cooperative organisation. And possible more formally a [[Distributed Cooperative Organisation]].

• [[flancia social impact]]

[flancia social impact]: flancia social impact.md "flancia social impact" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"

[https://anagora.org/flancia-collective pull flancia collective in the agora]

[[flancia social impact]]

//anagora.org/flancia-collective

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flancia collective in the agora

• the [[open collective]] behind the [[agora]]
• #same-as [[flancia coop]]

• A [[person]].
  • My [[self]] :).
  • in the [[Agora]].
  • #go https://flancia.org pull
  • #git https://gitlab.com/flancian/flancian
    • #gitlab https://gitlab.com/flancian
    • #github https://github.com/flancian
    • [[matrix]] @flancian:matrix.org
    • [[twitter]] https://twitter.com/flancian
    • [[fediverse]] https://social.coop/@flancian
    • [[email]] 0@flancia.org
    • [[calendly]] https://calendly.com/flancian
    • [[agora]] https://anagora.org pull
      • [[garden]] https://github.com/flancian/garden
      • [[agora server]]
      • [[agora bridge]]
    • [[mastodon]]
      • [[social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian
      • [[merveilles]] https://merveilles.town/@flaneur
    • [[telegram]] @Flancian
    • [[tiktok]] https://tiktok.com/@flancian
    • [[ctzn]] https://ctznry.com/flancian@ctzn.one
    • [[anar.chi.st]] https://anar.chi.st/Flancian
    • [[chess]] https://chess.com/member/flancian
    • [[urbit]] danfen-socsum (unavailable for now, see note for more)
    • A [[Buddhist]].
      • I try to dedicate myself [[for the benefit of all beings]].
    • I also identify as a [[humanist]], [[rational]], [[liberal]], [[naturalist]], [[scientist]].
      • (I prefer to [[deconstruct]] these and other [[cluster identities]] whenever it is feasible, though.)
      • The [[Agora]] is an [[experimental social network]] in which I try to express my integrated identity.
    • I practice [[open source]] and [[open ethics]] as much as I can.
      • This [[agora]] is, and will always be, [[free]] and [[open source]].
      • I try to follow an explicit personal social [[contract]] that extends and complements that of the [[agora]].
      • I try to be open with my way of living as it has an [[ethical impact]]. This includes being open about how I spend my [[time]] and [[money]].
      • I work for [[Google]] as a [[site reliability engineer]].
      • I was born in [[Argentina]], I live in [[Switzerland]].
      • I practice [[effective altruism]].
      • I am a member of [[social.coop]].
      • I consider myself a [[municipalist]].
    • In my [[free time]] I practice [[protopian thinking]]; I am an [[amateur utopian]].
      • [[Utopias]] are a genre of [[literature]] which I'm interested in.
      • A [[protopia]] is an incremental [[utopia]].
      • I call my [[protopia]] (our [[protopia]]!) [[Flancia]], but the name isn't important.
      • I am a Flancian and this [[agora]] contains my [[manifesto]].
      • I intend to bring facets of [[Flancia]] into the real world, only as far as they also benefit others, without unilaterally imposing my will.
        • [[flancia collective]]
      • I'm trying to build an [[Agora]].
        • There are many [[Agoras]]. This Agora is just [[an agora]].
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1349070105402105856 pull
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1254149494209499138 pull

Flancian is the guy behind [[Agora]].

=> https://flancia.org pull

Ahoy there!

I'm [[flancian]], meaning [[https://anagora.org/flancian]] pull.

I'm happy to be here!

• @flancian@social.coop

Flancian

A cool [[person]] on [[Mastodon]] and [[Agora]]. https://social.coop/web/accounts/220555

Flancian

Flancian

• A [[person]].
• The creator and maintainer of their [[Agora]].

[https://anagora.org/flancian pull flancian in the agora]

//anagora.org/flancian

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frame of flancian's agora page

• Pretty cool person
• #twitter https://twitter.com/flancian
• #mastodon https://social.coop/@flancian

#protopian #anarchist

[[2021-06-23]]

• #pull [[metta]]

perhaps naive

• [[pull]] [[flancia]] [[timeline]] [[perhaps naĩve]]

  This is my perhaps naive take on why [[2021]] was a good year at the same time it was terrible for so many, and why the [[21st century]] is going to be amazing.

  First of all, let's spare a minute for those who suffered or didn't make it. Let us do [[loving kindness]] for them and those that remain.

  Now let me tell you something. I think things are looking up on a few fronts.

  First, it's becoming evident that humanity needs to learn how to deal with [[global risk]] together. It is becoming unavoidable. It will happen out of necessity due to risks that happen to affect also those in positions in power. It seems evident to me that the best way to tackle the problems at hand is to have nation states cooperate at high enough speed. Efficient pandemics handling is at stake: if nation-states first, and arbitrary human groups later, can learn to solve the coordination problems involved in defining rational (and evolutionarily fit) policies on a global scale. Here I see the future as ideally a peaceful showdown between nation-states and competing groups ([[corporations]], [[cooperatives]], [[collectives]]) as they realize the true power of the internet for solving [[coordination problems]].

  Second, many died. People know people who died. Not all families have been affected severely by Covid, but most will know one that has. We are likely entering a period of increased empathy: even after accounting for desensitization after prolongued exposure to the same stress, the suffering of others is top of mind for many.

  Thirdly, it is a time of tired giants and emerging movements. Democracies are faltering, I believe, not due to any faults in the entelechia, but because of our clumsy or just outdated implementations. Nation-states are not set up to remain evolutionarily fit when paradigm shifts take place, and I believe a paradigm shift is needed because lives are at stake: the cost of governance mistakes or even inefficiencies in a time of pandemic is death and suffering.

  Now, for my proposal: I will tell you what I think might happen in the next ten years. Then you can tell me what you think, and why you think something else might happen. Then we'll try to learn from each other.

  I believe the way we will solve many of the issues we're facing as we near the end of 2021 is to solve [[coordination problems]], at large scale, while [[expanding the circle]].

  I don't think the system of nation states we have deposited the bulk of our power on in the last few centuries are fit for that purpose. I believe the [[revolution]] is coming no matter what you think of it; so you better start thinking about it and, once you find your fellow revolutionaries at heart, join them gladly.

  [[...]]