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Running #fediverse software as a #collective seems like a nice way to build communities on a strong legal ground. Any plans, blueprints, or concepts out there on how to go about it already?
Asking for a (lot of) friend(s) 
@simondassow There is this talk https://media.ccc.de/v/2024-375-vereine-grnden-fr-das-fediverse from @claudius about founding associations for this purpose. Not sure if there is something similar in Dutch law, but maybe this could be a starting point?
@simondassow Maybe @claudius would be willing to extend his page in that regard? Maybe it would be a good idea to have a dedicated website for each country and link to one another?
@simondassow @DerMolly https://fediverse.jetzt/ is currently very much rooted in german jurisdiction. But that's only because that's all I really know about. I would totally include information about other countries as well!
@simondassow @DerMolly This would be a great opportunity to bring back classic web rings :-D
@simondassow The folk over at @SocialCoop run their Mastodon instance as a cooperative and they conveniently have a wiki that describes exactly how they operate. 
@matt @SocialCoop Really good stuff, thanks for sharing!
@simondassow @matt @SocialCoop I'd also point to the work one of our members @ntnsndr does on governance of digital spaces... https://www.ucpress.edu/books/governable-spaces/paper
@simondassow I think this is some pretty critical information. We run #CosocialCa as a Canadian cooperative and it's a great service. I want to see what we can do to spread cooperative social media.
well, one example i wrote a bit ago:
"Defending the (Mastodon) User"
https://yawnbox.is/blog/defending-the-mastodon-user/
i'd be happy to help with larger efforts.
@simondassow this is what we are doing on our greek Firefish server, electricrequiem.com. We are basically an online community that goes back to 2003, we used to run a forum until 2022, when we decided to lock it and start a fedi server. But we are not run by a legal entity, it's all unofficial, we're a group of friends at this point. We have a small technical team and decisions are made by a group. We are 8 people in total atm, sometimes people come, sometimes people go - we try to keep the admin group neither too small, so that decisions are only taken by very few people, nor too big, so that it's difficult to coordinate. We cover the server costs with crowdfunding, and whatever extra money we have we give to solidarity. Our latest donation for example was towards a squat in Athens where many immigrant families live.
We like the concept and it works for us. We have our own social media, no ads, free for everyone, and whoever wants to and has the financial capability, donates. Costs are covered and we can also support some good causes.
Hope this helps!
@panos Thanks for sharing your experience and the great approach!