Danterious@lemmy.world

Danterious@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1069930

Edit: Based off of a suggestion from someone I am rewriting this post to be more informative

I have been working on a mobile app that is supposed to help groups of people coordinate their actions towards a shared goal. I’m done with the basic features (I’m talking barebones here) and I am trying to find a community or two that would be willing to work with me to test and improve it.

The way the app currently works is that someone sets up a community name that other members of the community would use to get into a group. Anyone in the community can suggest goals for the community but the goal that is shown first is the most approved goal. In addition to suggesting goals anyone in the community would be able to suggest tasks that someone else in the community can either approve of and/or contribute towards. Finally if you click on a task there is the opportunity suggest and vote on reasons for doing or not doing a task.

The philosophy of this app is that if people are working towards a shared goal then individuals will choose to take actions that push that shared goal forward. The main thing stopping people is the lack of clear actions and steps that someone as an individual should take to help push that goal forward. That is what this app is trying to fix.

The following are some screenshots of what the current app looks like:

Main Page:

Task Page:

Add Goal/Task Page:

Add Reason Page:

Profile page:

Social Ecology

Social Ecology, developed from green anarchism, is the idea that our ecological problems have their ultimate roots in our social problems. This is because the domination of nature and our ecology by humanity has its ultimate roots in the domination humanity by humans. Therefore, the solutions to our ecological problems are found by addressing our social and ecological problems simultaneously.

Quotes

Poetry and imagination must be integrated with science and technology, for we have evolved beyond an innocence that can be nourished exclusively by myths and dreams.

~ Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom

People want to treat ‘we’ll figure it out by working to get there’ as some sort of rhetorical evasion instead of being a fundamental expression of trust in the power of conscious collective effort.

~Anonymous, but quoted by Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

~Murray Bookchin, “A Politics for the Twenty-First Century”

There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society based on self-administration must be achieved by means of self-administration.

~Murray Bookchin, Post Scarcity Anarchism

In modern times humans have become a wolf not only to humans, but to all nature.

~Abdullah Öcalan

The ecological question is fundamentally solved as the system is repressed and a socialist social system develops. That does not mean you cannot do something for the environment right away. On the contrary, it is necessary to combine the fight for the environment with the struggle for a general social revolution…

~Abdullah Öcalan

Social ecology advances a message that calls not only for a society free of hierarchy and hierarchical sensibilities, but for an ethics that places humanity in the natural world as an agent for rendering evolution social and natural fully self-conscious.

~ Murray Bookchin

I'm looking for people to test an app for community coordination. Where should I start?

I'm looking for people to test an app for community coordination. Where should I start?