Join us for our second edition of the #PlatformCoops Open Research Forum on March 24, this time dedicated to exploring market opportunities and business models for platform coops! The team of #NeedsMap in Turkey will share their story.
Sign up here and get in touch with platform coop founders, researchers, students & activists!
#platformCoops
#TIL about Other Tech Worlds are Possible, a comic about technological empowerment among radical workers in Brazils' MTST (English translation: Homeless Workers Movement);
Taxi + ride-hailing app services, run as platform co-ops in some places. But maybe councils could supply apps which aggregate rides from a range of vetted services? Including those that specialise in transporting the disabled?
It's akin to the way a competent council can supply public shopping areas, with a range of independently run food places All of which are inspected for anything that might poison you.
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Concluding my week on Friday with an online international event by @cecop_coops on how coop federals can support innovative coop startups. I’ll be talking about @cooperativesuk #Hackathons and our work on #platformcoops via #unfound.
Nächste Woche Samstag feuern wir im Millerntor-Stadion beim FC St. Pauli mit vielen anderen Genossenschaften unseren Lieblingsclub an: die bessere Welt des kooperativen Wirtschaftens
Wir freuen uns riesig auf das #coopfest
https://www.hostsharing.net/genossenschaft/
Kommt vorbei! Infos und Tickets unter https://fcspeg.com/14genossenschaften-bauen-eine-bessere-welt-coop-fest-2025-noch-mehr-ermaessigte-tickets/
:TwinPines: Local, Multi-Stakeholder, Cooperative Food Delivery with Radish. #Coops #PlatformCoops
There's a lot of interesting stuff in this interview with Mansib Rahman and Dru Oja Jay! Radish is a local, multi-stakeholder food delivery #cooperative in Montreal, Canada that has been exploring supply-chain logistics for restaurants. #PlatformCoops
The sudden and unexpected shuttering of mtrx.nz and peertube.nz in the last couple of weeks is a stark reminder of how ephemeral community-hosted services can be. In the absence of third options, people are stuck with technical infrastructure offered either by corporations, or by informal group of volunteers. Who have every right to walk away at any time, leaving the people hosted on their servers scrambling for a replacement.
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:TwinPines: Great interview here with Simon from @mirlo. Musicians, platform nerds, and co-op appreciators will find much to pique their interest (and the #Fedi gets a shoutout).
#PlatformCoops #Music #Streaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvL9TFJRZwU
My paper “The Politics of Platform Technologies: A Critical Conceptualization of the Platform and Sharing Economy” is now published in Philosophy & Technology!
And it's #openaccess, so give it a read!
#PhD #phdlife #platformcoops #platformeconomy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-025-00840-5
Morgen, Freitag, ab 16h: Unser nächster #PlatformCoops Community Call, diesmal zum Thema: Cooperative Education. Speaker:innen sind Oihane Amurrio, leader of program development in Cooperative Cultural Entrepreneurship at Travelling U and Tim Weilkiens, board member of oose and co-founder of #haqoo. Bitte meldet euch kostenlos hier an: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/community-call-education-for-a-cooperative-future-tickets-1152505006499
#FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media
We are determined to free social media from billionaire control
Social media once promised to be a global public square, connecting communities and sparking creativity. Yet it is now under the control of a few billionaires, used to advance their own political and business objectives.
Building on the foundation built by the BlueSky team, we are launching project #FreeOurFeeds to create a new future for social media, that gives power and choice back to people.
Free Our Feeds will establish a new, independent foundation to secure the future of social media with independent infrastructure and an ecosystem of innovation and applications on top of open technology.
The funds will be used to:
- Launch a public interest foundation that will work to support making Bluesky’s underlying tech (the AT Protocol) fully resistant to billionaire capture;
- Build independently hosted infrastructure (a second ‘relay’) so that Bluesky users, developers and researchers always have full access to the stream of content and data no matter what the company decides to do in future;
- Our bigger fundraising goal, of $30m in 3 years, will enable us to further develop the AT Protocol and create a fund for developers so they can build a wealth of social applications on top of open protocols to make social media a healthier and happier place.
#BlueSKy #cooperatives #enshittification #platformCooperativism #platformCoops #SocialMedia
Wir freuen uns auf einen inspirierenden Tag bei unserem Mitglied der oose eG, die das perspektives.festival organisiert.
This interview by @social.coop/@daspitzberg of Joshua Danielson helped us think about the pitfalls around running "platform co-ops" generally.
https://daspitzberg.medium.com/the-slow-demise-of-loconomics-4e184346d359
ENG
"too many mainstream social media platforms profit from orchestrating hostility. Platform capitalism is just one aspect of a larger economic system that prioritises profit over people and the greed of the few over the needs of the many"
The interdependance of care. The Care Collective #collectivecare #platformcoops #digitalcommons
ESP (traducción como me sale)
"demasiadas redes sociales mainstream lucran de orquestar la hostilidad. El capitalismo de plataformas es solo un aspecto de un sistema económico más amplio que prioriza el lucro sobre las personas y la avaricia de pocos sobre las necesidades de muchos"
Our weekly newsletter is out! #WorkerCoops #PlatformCoops #SolidarityEconomy
:TwinPines: Creating a Support System for #PlatformCoops in #Thailand
https://geo.coop/articles/creating-support-system-platform-cooperatives-thailand
[First Plenary](https://ngiforum2023.eu/agenda/):
Adriana Groh from @sovtechfund mentions how Platforms Cooperatives offer an opportunity to challenge the new giants of companies such as Uber. #platformCoops
Edit: tagging
@tess Marc Andreessen is a market fundamentalist who benefits from unicorns and bigtech winner-takes-all "startups". Meanwhile he doesn't acknowledge how much he and his enterprises take from the #commons, doesn't want to know how technology is certainly not neutral. Who owns/controls a internet standard matters, as it has a network effect, monopolising or levelling the playing field. Enfin, I'm happy to count me on his enemies list. #ethicaltech #platformcoops #publicvalues #opensource #privacy
@afewbugs Totally! Someone who sets up coops and mutuals for a living when I was asking for his views on #platformcoops once advised me something like: "set up a worker coop, yes, always! But a user-coop? All you will do is empower retired people, those with private-wealth, and people who like the sound of their own voice, to decide everything."
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