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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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tl;dr: No stream today!

My talk at CitrusCon nears, and between coordinating the hiring of writers, the production of cookies, and regular @fujocoded operations, I can use all the head-down time I can get.

This talk is timely and necessary, and I hope you'll all enjoy it a lot. Time to go make it all it can be ✨ Wish me luck!

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Thanks for tagging us! We're delighted to help spread this translation, but it wasn't made by us. The translator prefers anonymity usually, but allowed me to credit them as 8190 here :) they're flattered you found it helpful!

For people who have a BlueSky account and are interested in spreading their pride as one of these animals, we have a labeler that allows you to claim one. It's borked right now, but we're trying to get it to work again, at which point you'll get your owed label.

And if you ever settle on a yuri version of this, reach out! We'd love help you set up your own "yuri animals" labeler.

In the meantime, the way we see it is that anyone can be a fujin, regardless of ships gender, if they're rotten enough (and proud to be)!

Do you guys know that BL ship dynamic thingy. The one based on Sansukumi-ken? The three-way system of snake-slug-frog that works like rock-paper-scissors?? Ah, just take a look and you'll see what I mean. Credit to @fujowebdev for translating from Japanese.

Anyway. My question is, does this exist for yuri? Should we make one? Which animals would it be??

Also tag yourself. I'm gecko. 🦎 Once I find a dom girl I like I'll ship her with anyone...

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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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Come join today's stream!

This time, we're going back to our roots with an Astro double feature: first we'll help one of our community members create an image gallery for their site, then we'll integrate our Guestbook AppView with an Astro site!

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Come join today's stream!

This time, we're going back to our roots with an Astro double feature: first we'll help one of our community members create an image gallery for their site, then we'll integrate our Guestbook AppView with an Astro site!

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Finally almost done with the learn.fujoweb.dev writers style guide, a prerequisite for hiring writers to help us help EVEN MORE hobbyists pick up advanced webdev skills.

I hope to start looking into candidates next week, in the meantime our survey is still active!⬇️

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Spent some time updating our ATProto projects site with our latest work (conference talk + guestbook lexicon). Check it out here:

And IN 2 HOURS come chat with us as we continue building our new Guestbook on Twitch!

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Spent some time updating our ATProto projects site with our latest work (conference talk + guestbook lexicon). Check it out here:

And IN 2 HOURS come chat with us as we continue building our new Guestbook on Twitch!

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Spent some time updating our ATProto projects site with our latest work (conference talk + guestbook lexicon). Check it out here:

And IN 2 HOURS come chat with us as we continue building our new Guestbook on Twitch!

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Today I'm working on being able to put our writers survey to use by writing a @fujowebdev style guide

Obligatory "I want to code... please let me code......." (This is what I need to get more time to code back, but god the suffering is real)

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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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It's that time of the week, and our "Guestbook on ATproto" stream is starting... now! Let's get our client to finally talk to our new AppView, then implement more functionality on top!

Join us

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Geese, Guides, and Good Luck Cookies 🪿📔🥠... and a (paid) Call for Writers 📝💰

It's out! Check out this month's update, including: our visit to #ATmosphereConf (feat. geese yaoi 🪿), our plans for the fortune cookies revenue 🥠, news on the GitHub Guide Beta and... A 💰PAID💰 opportunity for daring—not to mention aspiring—tech writers 📝⬇️

Call for hire

This month we’re once again happy to share a paid position: come forth technical writers (and aspiring such), and let us bring you on a Now Paying Money adventure!

Smithing Words📝…for Money (💰): After much time, feedback, and outlining, the “Introduction to JavaScript with NPM” articles financed through our founding campaign are ready to be written! Now we’re finally looking for technical writers (fannish background appreciated) to help us inspire new, confident explorers of everything the NPM ecosystem has to offer—and yes, we (also) mean Astro. Check out some of the articles in our learning website for an example of what the final artifacts should look like, and get in touch if you’re up for the (paid) task! We require both basic computer knowledge and the willingness to run simple command line programs, but we don’t require previous experience with professional technical writing NOR pre-existing knowledge of NPM/JavaScript. Just send us some tutorials or other explainers you’ve written!

Smithing Videos📹…for Glory: Are you willing to wrangle video wranglers? BobaBoard’s documentation bubble is looking for a wondrous lead volunteer to coordinate our wonderful video volunteers as they turn our many, many hours of recorded web development and BobaBoard documentation into something the whole FujoVerse™ and beyond can put to good use. If you have previous experience with managing work on video, or have been part of similar work and want to build some managing experience of your own, reach out!

If any of these calls for aid sound up your alley, or if you’d like to get involved in other ways, please reach out at contacts@fujocoded.com or via DMs!

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Time to continue our journey towards an ATproto-based GuestBook! Come build an AppView with me...and let's learn together what that means!

Starting now:

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No stream today as I catch up with my HUUUGE todo list, but *absolutely* stream this Thursday at 3PM Pacific! It's time to get that Guestbook lexicon an AppView...after we learn what an AppView is!

See you (and catch part 1) here 👇