Here's some more info on how Project Mushroom will work for creators 🍄🍄🍄
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Keeping our creators safe is our utmost priority. We will be working with the Project Mushroom community to develop moderation protocols with strict bans on behavior like harassment, racism, and climate denial.
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Our goal at Project Mushroom is to center joy and action. We will recruit moderators to enforce our community-led rules and will have a firewall protecting creators from targeted harassment and unwanted attention. We will set up transparent processes to gather input at all steps.
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This platform is being built to fit creators' needs — not just as a replacement for Twitter.
We will offer at least four types of creator services:
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🍄 Newsletter hosting/publishing (including setup, maintenance, discoverability, creator tools via Ghost)
🍄 Live events hosting (audio, video, in person, and creator support)
🍄 A curated Mastodon-based social media network
🍄 Onboarding assistance for your followers to join you
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We've had enough of scorched-earth policies of billionaires on a warming planet.
Project Mushroom will cultivate timely and accurate information that supports community resilience and safety during the climate emergency.
We will work to foster strong long-term relationships.
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Instead of paying for your blue check, Project Mushroom will ensure you are paid for your labor. We are contemplating a pay structure that would let creators keep 100% of their proceeds from their paid memberships *and* charge $0 in setup fees or ongoing maintenance.
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In exchange creators on Project Mushroom might:
🍄 Allow us to run mission-aligned advertising on your feeds and posts (i.e. no Exxon on climate content)
🍄 Help with NPR-style membership drives to keep this a community-funded effort
🍄 Volunteer to help us build the platform
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This platform will be decentralized and community owned. Project Mushroom will have no algorithm. 🍄
All of this is being built with your input. We're scheduling listening sessions with creators, privacy advocates, and experts in building safe and thriving online experiences.
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As we grow, Project Mushroom is looking to join forces with other organizations working for justice and a better world.
🍄🍄🍄 If you are interested in being a creator or helping us in any way, please fill out this short form! Thank you!! 🍄🍄🍄
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And if you haven't already, please spread the word about Project Mushroom's waitlist — for every 5 referrals, we will pull a pound of trash out of the ocean. 🌊🍄
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