Para is fighting a grim legal and technical battle against companies like #Doordash, whose margins depend on atomized workers with atomized apps, prohibited from countertwiddling. This is a surprisingly effective tactic: in Indonesia, gig workers co-ops create suites of #tuyul apps that modify the behavior of their bosses' apps', unilaterally securing concessions that they lack the bargaining power to secure by other means:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuyul-apps/#gojek

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When workers #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation, amazing things happen. In #Indonesia, gig workers create and trade #tuyul apps that let them unilaterally modify the way that their bosses' systems see them - everything from GPS spoofing to accessibility mods:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuyul-apps/#gojek

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Some thoughts from @doctorow on #Gojek and the #tuyul app ecosystem:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuyul-apps/#gojek