Autonomic Co-op

Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change! GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimi...

GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimism in an update from founder @kim.town.

gfsc.community/the-future-o...

Poster with a deep purple background and chalk-style drawing of satellites, power lines, mountains, solar panels, and tech equipment forming an imaginative network. The course is titled “Solidarity Infrastructures” and taught by Meghna Mahadevan and Max Fowler with Io Hushpuppie. Description reads: “Build infrastructure outside a techno-capitalist worldview.”

Text on a dreamy purple and yellow background describes the class exploring topics like the slow web, organic internet, data sovereignty, minimal computing, and anti-computing. It highlights how community tech and cultural organizing intersect. The text emphasizes collective values and ecological grounding over traditional high/low-tech dichotomies. At the bottom, there's an oval photo of a person using a wood-burning tool on a craft board with trees in the background.

How do we cultivate infrastructures of solidarity with each other?

Join us in September to explore grassroots ways of building independent tools outside techno-capitalism in Solidarity Infrastructures, taught online by Meghna Mahadevan, @notplants.bsky.social & hushpuppie io

༻ Apply @ sfpc.study

Most communities have zero experience or capital to self host anything. That's why they all end up on discord.

What are we doing to fix that?

What if your community could pool storage to self host it's own images? What if the network of compute that runs the service was maintained cooperatively?

What It's Like to Work at a Tech Worker Co-op Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. Catalyst's...

Thank you to the great Colorado-founded @catalyst.coop for this deep-dive on worker co-op management & governance! 

And thank you GEO Collective for publishing: geo.coop/articles/wha...

Keep your alt text short, but don't be afraid to add a little whimsy. Describe colors. And more tips!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/polls-about-alt-text-on-social-media/

#AltText #accessibility #SocialMedia

To the folks who insist worker ownership isn't compatible with "human nature"—we have empirical research over decades that shows the exact opposite. Worker ownership and participation are linked to increases in satisfaction and productivity. Psychological ownership is a real, studied phenomenon.

Minimum Viable Organisations Please note this is a work in progress! Basic principle: It should be easy (low emotional labour, low technical labour, zero cost) to start a project with a small group of people with shared goals.

Great piece of clear writing on organising from Geeks for Social Change, from political to community activities. Worth a read for anyone in an activist organiser capacity. kim.town/minimum-viab...

Hi folks, we've received feedback about the pricing for our docs.coop hosting.

We've decided to drop the price to £30/mo for a small Docs instance. This comes with an SSO provider (such as Keycloak or Authentik).

Hit us up at boop@autonomic.zone if need help deGoogling your office suite!

U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives Open jobs at U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

The @usworker.coop is #hiring! Check our the positions at apply.coop/workplaces/c... #jobs #coops

screenshot of https://forest-restoration.eu/

Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...

A side-by-side view of the same account from Bluesky (left) and Mastodon (right). Both screenshots show the same profile picture, header image, and identical description. The Bluesky username shows up as @chaos.distraction.engineer, while on the Mastodon side it's @chaos@distraction.engineer.

Hm. A "proof of concept" pull request that adds "preliminary ActivityPub support" to Bluesky.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/3943

Screenshots via https://bsky.app/profile/distraction.engineer/post/3lql7jiqaac2a

#bluesky #fediverse #SocialMedia

As far as we can tell, there are no plans for AI integration in the upstream project, and definitely no intention on our side to integrate AI in our hosted version :)

But hey, you can't be too safe🤞

One of our fellow worker co-ops @autonomic.zone have developed a new collaborative document platform as alternative to Google, Microsoft etc - check it out docs.coop

What a great list! I’d also add the excellent resources by radhr.org

thank you for your contribution to the commons!

Docs.coop – Co-operatively hosted open source document editing An ethical and open alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, and other corporate clouds.

If you're interested in testing a docs.coop instance, hit us up: boop@autonomic.zone

We can't offer the same loss leader prices as USian tech mega corps but we do offer control and privacy over your infrastructure with full support provided by us. Hosted in the EU by a worker-owned co-op.

numerique-gouv "Chief Technology Officer" de l'État, en charge de l'innovation numérique au service de l'efficacité de l'action publique - numerique-gouv

There are some missing features as the upstream project is still in beta, however we feel with the sustainable funding model the project has, it's only going to get better and better.

Here is their roadmap: github.com/orgs/numerique-gouv

Here is our TODO list: git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/

Co-op Cloud Recipes The Co-op Cloud config commons. All [recipes](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/glossary/#recipe) in one place. Toolshed is [here](https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed).

It's early days and the project is still in beta but we have published an early version of a Co-op Cloud recipe (git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/) that makes it easier to deploy Docs for smaller organisations.

Docs.coop – Co-operatively hosted open source document editing An ethical and open alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, and other corporate clouds.

We're thrilled to announce our new project: docs.coop!

Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (docs.numerique.gouv.fr), we're offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

Modern computing is made possible by anarchist organizing.

Free software runs the planet, and it's organized by anarchism.

Anarchy works, the proof is all around you.

screenshot of website showing class links to class projects

excited to share the third round of class projects from solidarity infrastructures: from local archives of neighborhood street art, to an rfc for maintenance dinners, to a self-hosted signal directory, and many other experiments and reflections on servers and infrastructure

infrastructures.us/e...

corporate overlords can't take html away from you! html is inside us

Demo video of live setup of Co-op Cloud stack with single sign on with Keycloak and running Matrix, Hometown (Mastodon fork), and Nextcloud.
coopcloud.tech/blog/...

We have a passion for liberatory & collectively governed technology and love to collaborate with other co-ops and social good organisations.

You can read more about us on our website: autonomic.zone

Hi, friends!

We set up this account quite a while back but never got around to posting a proper #introduction.

We're Autonomic, a hive mind of 12 people around the world turning gentle chaos into websites, infrastructure, and design.

Thanks so much for the shout-out ♥️

To be clear though, we didn't develop the software. We're building on top of the excellent Docs Numerique project which was recently released as joint effort between the French 🇫🇷 and German 🇩🇪 governments.