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Psyberhood
The Psyberhood consumer/survivor members meet in coffeeshops using smartphones to communicate orders to the outing leader, who places the order, pays with a gift card, obtains the receipt, enters the order amounts, tax and total, and shows the receipt to the other members (who verify their order amounts). All members are expected to take turns being outing leaders or deputy leaders. Low-functioning outing leaders are assisted by deputy leaders. Members must have PayPal or a credit card, alternatively, they can use cash to pay their coffeeshop tabs which is handled by a participating mental health organization. Coffeeshop orders are subject to a pretax 5 percent surcharge payable to Psyberhood. Members who haven't gone on outings for a single calendar month or more are exposed to ads.
The online community of members (which is smartphone-based) is similar to Facebook. Each member has one or more friends who are also members. Members submit posts and comments on other posts/comments. Posts which are friends-only are only visible to friends of the original poster. Public posts are visible to everyone. Posts are moderated by mental health organizations.
Cooporgroops
Cooporgroops are subsets of the online community of consumer/survivors. Each diagnosis, mental health organization, team, member role, and geographic region has its own cooporgroop. Roles include survivor, friend/relative, and professional. Each team is a subset of a given mental health organization. Compound cooporgroops consist of two or more cooporgroops (which themselves may be compound cooporgroops) combined with boolean operators (and, or, not).
Cooporhood is a generalized version of Psyberhood. Cooporgroops can be any conceivable category of members. Different occupations, ethnic groups, organizations, academic subjects, pop culture topics, etc. are all possible cooporgroops. Members who choose to become Patrons donate 5 to 20 percent of their coffeeshop orders to nonprofit organizations. Some cooporgroops are private: posts only visible to members. For-profit organizations which need private cooporgroops pay a 10 percent surcharge on coffeeshop orders, and may choose to split those fees 50-50 with their members.
Cooperscript and Coopertags
Cooporgroops can be customized by modifying their Cooperscript/Coopertags code (new programming/text markup languages respectively). Cooporhood subscribers, who pay $10/year, along with other users who spent at least $2 in the previous/current calendar month, can browse public cooporgroops and see no ads. Cooporhood subscribers can run third-party Cooperscript smartphone apps in full color mode, whereas Cooporhood users who are non-subscribers are limited to running those smartphone apps in grayscale mode.
The 2 built in social media communities are Psyberhood and Cooporhood. Alternative communities are written in Cooperscript and Coopertags. Cooporhood.com receives 15 percent of revenue earned by the alternative communities. Each new community imports its membership database from an existing community.