Fit Open Mastodon hosted on social.fitopen.org

'Fit Open' is people powered, outdoor fitness & endurance sports.

This is our collaborative social space. We're establishing a community, across the globe. Choosing to step away from the centralisation of gyms. To firmly ground ourselves in the freedom of discovery, and participation of outdoor fitness & endurance sports. Our home is formed as a dependable, advertisement free, vibrantly safe space for all. We all need a little support to get us to our goals. We're here to connect as humans, share tips & advice, a supportive community when things turn tough, and celebrate those personal wins along with you.

Mastodon provides the framework of our social platform. It's open source and based on the Web standards body W3C recommendation -- 'ActivityPub'. Over 2,000 active instances are already federating together in excess of 1.3 Million diverse users, each adopting decentralisation as a true alternative. We're a new addition to these highly distributed instances.

Anyone can join us here in our Mastodon home. All we ask is that you observe our Code of Conduct*, linked below. Each instance has it own rules. If you're not a fan of ours, take a look at joinmastodon.org for alternatives.

Sign up today. By choosing 'Fit Open' as your home, you'll add your fitness lifestyle to this growing community.

Built by a for-benefit Social Enterprise*:

• community owned & run
• roadmapped* towards officially registering as a fourth sector* social enterprise* - until this official registration it's just me [David Ross] at the helm
• for the ethical design, build, maintenance, and benefit of 'Fit Open' and its community
• decisions are based on concensus* through a sociocratic* governance model
• with measurable social impact*, transparency, sustainability, accountability, responsible social investment and social ROI, positive environmental impact - built in from the beginning

More details of how join in the creation of our social enterprise, will come in the months ahead. See our progress in the documents below.

Our FOSS* project

This social platform has been founded to drive interest, partnership, contribution, and investment towards a much needed fitness industry infrastructure model. Its MPL 2.0 copy-left open source licensed code-base can be found seperately over on Github*. This is being developed for human connection at the intersection of:

1. Charitable Community - a network of doing good: individually and collectively
2. Outdoor Activities & Locations - these environments are also deserving of our care, maintenance and support
3. Outdoor Sports & Fitness Industry - trustworthy network of professionalism

You do not have to take part in this infrastructure building to take part in our community here on Mastodon. With transparency as key, it's important you know what drives our efforts.

Donations will help

Support our server running costs, community building, and platform development milestones. Help us get things done. Should we hit a surplus, this will be focused towards ethically designed projects (decided by consensus) which align with the community's collective, human centred mission.

Our guiding documents

These are open to being shaped by community members discussion and input.

Code of Conduct. How we respect each other.

Privacy Policy. What we do with your data.

Github repo. Contributors welcome. Soon to move to Gitlab, but we'll be retaining a mirror on Github.

Roadmap. The milestones towards full platform realisation.

Draft Ethics Policy. Designing our social impact.

Draft commitment to Open Source. Not only are we building a FOSS project, we are commited to further supporting Open Science, Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Innovation, and Open Governance.

Is Mastodon really growing? What is this 'Fourth Sector'? What is a Social Enterprise? What is Concensus? What is FOSS? What is Sociocracy?