In welcome

What interests me:

Everything related to a solidarity-based economy and #PlatformCooperativism (the technology for a more solidarity-based and vibrant world is here; we just need to use it)
https://fairwork.org/
https://laufbahnberatung.org/subsistenzwirtschaft/

All the music curated for the Subvert alpha is so much cooler than I am! I feel like I have to drop everything and give myself a sonic education by listening to everything by every one of these artists !!

https://subvert.fm

#Subvert #Coop #cooperative #cooperativsm #platformCoop #platformCooperativism #Bandcamp #BandcampReplacement #Music

In our latest episode of #TechnoEnema 📻 we're joined by Aubin Laurent - spokesperson at @CoopCycle. We speak about CoopCycle of course 🚴

The interview starts at 9:26 (before that we make introduction in Slovenian 🇸🇮 and we recommend skipping it). The interview is in English. #podcast #CoopCycle #Coops #PlatformCooperativism #PlatformCapitalism

https://radiostudent.si/druzba/tehno-klistir/dostavljalske-zadruge

OnlineFirst - "Beyond technological sovereignty: Practising technological self-determination in platform cooperativism" by Laura Eccher and Ugo Rossi:

#technologicalsovereignty #algorithmicdemocracy #platformcooperativism #Europe

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X251325743

#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

#Brazil #PlatformCooperativism: "This article theorizes about how platform cooperativism is landing in Brazil, challenging dominant notions and presenting a more diverse meaning of worker-owned technologies from below. Drawing on research with platform co-ops under construction in Brazil, the article argues that, in Brazil, platform cooperativism does not necessarily present itself as either a cooperative or a platform. They are prototypes and experiments of worker-owned technologies anchored in local communities and their values. Instead of all these experiences being condensed and captured from Global North epistemic frameworks, there is the production of knowledge by the workers in search of autonomy. The article analyzes potentialities and critiques of platform cooperativism, especially from three dimensions of critique (economics, politics, and technology). It presents perspectives towards diversifying and expanding the meanings of technology in/from Latin America for understanding worker-owned technologies. It discusses two examples of worker-owned technologies: Senoritas Courier and the Homeless Worker Movement."

https://academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ccc/tcad036/7339750?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=ccc&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=d16743d0-1217-4191-aca0-23fba29db95f&login=false

V #tehnoklistir sva s Treborjem Scholtzem govorila o platformnem zadružništvu kot odgovoru na platformni kapitalizem #PlatformCooperativism #PlatformCapitalism

https://radiostudent.si/druzba/tehno-klistir/platformno-zadruznistvo