The Co-op Source Foundation

This is the way.

social.coop A Fediverse instance for people interested in cooperative and collective projects. If you are interested in joining our community, please apply at https://join.social.coop/registration-form.html.

Running services, e.g., PDSes, as non-profit organisations or co-op's is probably something that many ATmosphere devs could learn from the ActivityPub service operators.

If memory serves, social.coop has a tonne of information on how they run things

Anarcho-capitalism is an ideology that entails stateless, unregulated capitalism. Some believe this system would maximize liberty and freedom. It would do the opposite. Corporations, much like states, have the capacity to behave oppressively. This is why democracy is necessary within both.

Employee ownership and firm performance: a meta‐analysis Employee ownership has been an area of significant practitioner and academic interest for the past four decades. Yet, empirical results on the relationship between employee ownership and firm perform....

A 2016 metastudy of 102 samples representing 56,984 firms finds that employee ownership is positively associated with productivity.

These findings align with a growing body of research showing that businesses owned by their workers tend to be more productive than other companies.

Or they could form as cooperatives with both users & devs as stakeholders.

Employee participation and productivity This paper measures the productivity impact of shop-floor employee involvement. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the st…

A study finds that shop-floor employee participation boosted productivity for establishments in Germany by an average of 28%. Businesses gained additional productivity advantages through teamwork, autonomous work groups, and less hierarchical organizational structures.

#EconomicDemocracy

The fourteenth amendment has entered the chat.

I agree w Nathan and support a lot of his efforts but I think very few things require the global agreement and friction public crypto/blockchains often require.

It makes logical sense and maybe things have changed enough since I kept track of the crypto world to make using it worth the downsides. 🤔

Thanks for the talk! I learned more about building on atproto which is going to be part of a network of technology cooperatives.

Maybe I never scrolled down far enough to see there aren’t any real replies below the pin posts. 🤦‍♂️

I’ll pay more attention. It would still be better to have bookmarks for a number of reasons (privacy, more accurate reply counts, etc.)

I see a pull request in my future 👀😉

The main problem with this approach is that a popular post will have a huge scrolling list of pin replies everyone has to waste time scrolling through to get to actual replies.

I didn’t know you were a developer. Have fun!

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Boycotting plutocratic big business is good. Supporting alternative systems is even better. When you spend at a co-op, your money benefits community members, not a wealthy elite. You also support a democratic institution in the economy, which strengthens democracy overall.

Shop co-op.

Hold my beer, brb

To celebrate the UN International Year of Cooperatives, Co-op Source will publish our roadmap for the year and begin the journey of fostering the development of technology focused cooperatives. More to come soon.