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Rebuilding Community on the (Fujo)Web, pt. 2

This part (my favorite) is all about why "getting help from your community members" is not a straightforward way to exit the Downward Spiral of Indie Projects Burnout. The answer is "simple": power dynamics

Many Indie Projects start from a desire to flatten the hierarchy of power between platforms and users. Many project runners are uncomfortable with wielding power at all!

But wishing power away is not enough: the US vs THEM always lies in wait, ready to rear its head—especially in moments of crisis.

Above all, power is not as simple as we make it: while we all understand the power that flows from top to bottom of a hierarchy (power-over), we rarely talk about power that flows FROM the bottom of a hierarchy to the top—even though we see it all the time!

Power-under is all around us online.

Changing the power dynamics that happen in Indie Projects and our Community Spaces means understanding that it's not enough for people who build them to give away *their* power, we MUST figure out how to get people to take on the power that's given away. Reaching shared power requires both sides.

There is a lot more to this talk that would make this Tumblr post way too long. You can read more in the article itself, or a longer summary in this Bluesky thread.

Come to @citruscon this Saturday to watch me give (and discuss) its spiritual successor! 👇

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Rebuilding Community on the (fujo)Web — Part 1

It's (finally) time! A year after my CitrusCon24 talk & 10 days before my next, Part 1 of my "Rebuilding Community" series is on my blog.

This part explores why many indie social projects are caught in a "Downward Spiral" of disillusionment and burnout.

What's the "Downward Spiral"?

It's the vicious cycle where project runner burnout, user disillusionment, and impossible expectations feed each other. This makes it harder for the next project to get off the ground, and breeds resentment even within aligned communities. On… and on… and on…

I also look at the common "solutions" we desperately want to believe would work, but that are anything but straightforward:

Reducing scope (doing less)

Raising more funds

Relying on volunteers

Featuring: one of my favorite charts 👇 as they say, "ouch"

In the next part, we'll explore THE core issue we must fix, one that (once you see it) explains so much of… everything: our relationship to power.

You can watch the full original talk on YouTube, or follow along as I post the rest in the next days!

See you soon at @citruscon for my new talk (and spiritual successor): "Working Together in a Dying World"!

In the meantime, if this presentation convinced you I know what I'm doing (I do), support my work to fix this whole mess on Patreon

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Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Are you a writer?

Are you in one—or many!—niche online communities? Do you want to helps us build a better web for our own community (fanworks fandom), help yours in the process, and get some money 💵🏧💰 in return?

FujoCoded is looking for all kinds of writers! Drop your contacts in our form ⬇️

As a reminder, FujoCoded LLC works to bring internet weirdos together and to empower niche communities to reclaim their online spaces! Help us help the web by lending us your talents ⬆️ our supporting our work on Patreon ⬅️!

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Are you a writer?

Are you in one—or many!—niche online communities? Do you want to helps us build a better web for our own community (fanworks fandom), help yours in the process, and get some money 💵🏧💰 in return?

FujoCoded is looking for all kinds of writers! Drop your contacts in our form ⬇️

As a reminder, FujoCoded LLC works to bring internet weirdos together and to empower niche communities to reclaim their online spaces! Help us help the web by lending us your talents ⬆️ our supporting our work on Patreon ⬅️!

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With ONLY 24 HOURS(ish) left to buy your Fandom Cookies 🥠

what better way to celebrate the end of this event than to celebrate those who helped it get its start?

Go grab some cookies NOW ⬇️ and read on for our ✨Contributors Spotlight✨! 🧵

✨CONTRIBUTORS SPOTLIGHT✨

Let's start from the big pict—I mean, site! The stunning home of our cookies was lovingly coded by @essential-randomness and Ria based on a design by CatBathingSun. Adorning it, you'll find beautiful art created under the brilliant direction of @ymkse!

…and speaking of art, let's take it from the (literal) top.

Our "Raccoon Express" logo, which intellectuals will recognize as a parody of prolific-fortune-cookies-purveyor "Panda Express", was skillfully crafted by Hyena.

Behold, the creature!

Going right down, our beautiful title splash, also featured on our promotional material. This, like much of the art peppered throughout our page, is the masterful work of art director, contributor, and "Resident Cookie Run Expert" @ymkse.

More below the cut!

Loved collecting the fortune cookies throughout the store (and the FREE digital pack they carefully guard)? They came together with this delightful (and delighted) Boba-tan by the incredible @kiingfluffybuns!

...and speaking of gathering cookies, the fantastic art presenting our HTML Cookie Challenge is once again drawn by Hyena and YouTube-ified by @essential-randomness. Please notice the "graphic design is my passion" shirt, and the phone charms (with closeup)!

But a serious April 1st joke is not made of only art! Many friends worked tirelessly behind the scenes to sweeten this chaotic April, and will now even more tirelessly pack over 100 boxes of cookies 🥠🥠

As someone said, "once again, victims of our own success (affectionate)"!

Among the helpers, @enigmalea, @elendraug, @a-brilliant-loser, @xieliansbignaturals and our own Secret Final Boss. Not to mention https://blorbo.social/@legaosaure and @harvestspriteirl who contributed sexy art and fics to our cause!

And with this, our last 🥠reminder🥠. Our cookies will be available for the whole day of the 11th, then gone once @essential-randomness wakes up tomorrow.

See you next April 1st, and support our mission (🖼️⬇️) year-long on Patreon!

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Last 24—no, 48 hours!—to get your ✨🥠Fandom Cookies🥠✨!!

We're almost there: April 11th (one day later than planned) is your LAST CHANCE to sweeten up your life with some fandom-based Fortune Cookies!

Once again, Fandom Cookies come in 3 different flavors each with its own special selection of carefully-crafted fortunes:

🥠 "kinda vanilla", for the tasteful shipper

🍫 "chocolate doves", for those who like 'em spicy

🍋 "lemony prompts", for the scenario-ponderers

...all also in gluten free! Plus a secret FREE DIGITAL ITEM on the site for those who dare explore it.

Remember: your purchase helps @fujocoded (that is, us) teach online communities to take charge of their own web—not to mention hire fan creators to help!

Buy Cookies here!

...and if you want 15% off, check out our Patreon! Or, if you already bought them and now want MORE, use code ENCORE at checkout for free shipping!

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ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT...again!

Some asked, we listened: ✨ONE EXTRA DAY✨ of fortune cookie buying for everyone—both as a treat, ofc, and to enjoy a delicious 💵 paycheck Friday 💵!

Which means…ONE EXTRA DAY to defeat Chocolate Doves🍫🕊️!

Kinda Vanilla 🥠! Lemony Prompts 🍋! We believe in you!

HELP THEM WIN HERE

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BIG SHAKE UP

...in the final days of our Cookie Run-kings!

Chocolate Doves🍫 leads by not 1, not 2, but 5 cookies! A big spurt, since Lemony Prompts🍋 was yesterday's #1.

The race isn't over! Will the former king retake the throne? Will "Kinda Vanilla🥠" rise up? Find out in store

There's only a few days left to buy your favorite flavor of cookie-and-fandom fortunes! How many? We aren't sure! Our team has been heavily debating whether "ends on the 10th" means 2 or 3 days left.

Only one way to not worry about it: act NOW! Buy Cookies ⬇️

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Only 3 DAYS left in our Fandom Cookies campaign

...and the run-kings continue being head to head!

Lemony Prompts and Chocolate Doves now sit at JUST 1 UNIT distance, with Kinda Vanilla only 3 UNITS behind.

The gap can still be bridged! Help your fave win:

Remember: if you already bought cookies and want more, we have FREE shipping for you (code ENCORE), while even the tiniest pledge our Patreon will give you 15% off the whole store!!

Buy cookies! Buy cookies! Buy cookies!

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🥠🥠🥠 YOU GET A DISCOUNT! YOU GET A DISCOUNT! YOU GET A DISCOUNT! 🥠🥠🥠

We now have TWO cookies promos officially underway

🚢 Already bought cookies? Get FREE SHIPPING on another order with code ENCORE

🧑‍🎨 Want 10% OFF? Git & GitHub's underwear WANTS YOU (see pic)

[git & github refs]

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Good News Everyone!

@essential-randomness got a (part-time) job! Bad news: today is her chosen work day, and she (I) won't be able to be here to sell you all cookies!

Not to worry though, because with the same innovative spirit that brings you all this, we're proud to present a new experimental campaign:

Today, it's up to you:

help us spread our Fandom Fortune cookies (#FandomCookies) to the masses with memes, engagement bait, fortune-cookie-fied pictures of blorbos, or whatever else!

I don't know! You do you, I gotta focus on work.

Check out the reblogs for some starters our friends came up with, or make up your own! I'll reblog them throughout the day as I feel like procrastinating.

And if you want to make my workday.... BUY COOKIES!

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Fortune cookies back on! + 🏃🥠 Cookie (Run) Ranks 🥠🏃 + Free (second) shipping 🚢

Shopify had a hiccup yesterday, so if you've failed to buy our yummy fandom (fortune) cookies, give it another try! And if you haven't yet... what are you waiting for? 👇👀🥠

🏃🥠 Cookie (Run) Ranks 🥠🏃

Curious about how each cookie is performing? Wonder no more with our rankings 🖼️

The FREE digital pack is outrunning others but "Lemony Prompts" and "Chocolate Doves" are head to head, with "Kinda Vanilla" in hot pursuit! Go help your fave win!!

And with this... ...buy cookies, get a freer, better, weirder web!

Support our work, eat some delicious cookies, get your fortune told, and above all... have some whimsical fun with us all!

Buy them here!

Cheers 🥂🥠, The Raccoon Expr—I mean, FujoCoded team (Psss: get more info on shipping rates/free shipping below ⬇️

🚢 🚢 Free (second) Shipping 🚢 🚢

Already ordered some cookies but want more? Email us at store@fujocoded.com for a "free shipping" code for your additional order(s)!

And if you're worried about the cost of international shipping, our "shipping blorbo" (😏) PirateShip has reasonable rates for international shipping! It's not "free", but we've heard from people that it could be WAY worse!

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This April 1st, there's a sweet, sweet surprise in store (😏) for you

Introducing: FANDOM COOKIES,

the first cookie specifically created to satiate your hunger, so you can work hard to quench your thirst!

Fandom Cookies come in 3 different flavors each with its own special selection of carefully-crafted fortunes (all also in gluten free):

"kinda vanilla" for the tasteful shipper

"chocolate doves" for those who like spice

"lemony prompts" for the scenario-ponderers

Find our fortune cookies here!

But we aren't "just" a cookie company. We also work hard to entertain and (important) teach web skills! Check out the reblogs for more info on a free digital item 👀👀👀

As usual, your purchase will not only fill you with deliciousness, but will @fujocoded teach niche online communities to take charge of their own web—not to mention, to hire fan creators to help!

Want a discount? ...well, you might want to check out our Patreon 👀 you know, for reasons... 👀👀👀

And with this,

Buy cookies now!!!

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This April 1st, there's a sweet, sweet surprise in store (😏) for you

Introducing: FANDOM COOKIES,

the first cookie specifically created to satiate your hunger, so you can work hard to quench your thirst!

Fandom Cookies come in (all also in gluten free):

"kinda vanilla" for the tasteful shipper

"chocolate doves" for those who like spice

"lemony prompts" for the scenario-ponderers

Find them here

But we aren't "just" a cookie company. We also work hard to entertain and (important) teach web skills! Check out the reblogs for more info on a free digital item 👀👀👀

As usual, your purchase will not only fill you with deliciousness, but will @fujocoded teach niche online communities to take charge of their own web—not to mention, to hire fan creators to help!

Want a discount? ...well, you might want to check out our Patreon 👀 you know, for reasons... 👀👀👀

And with this,

Buy cookies now!!!