by Alanna Irving, originally posted at the Open Collective blog Social.coop is a cooperatively run instance of Mastodon, a decentralized social network based on open protocols and free, open-source software. …
by Jen Horonjeff If you’ve ever had to come up with a name for a group, a company, a project, it can be one of the most daunting tasks. It’s …
by Matt Cropp, via Co-op Water Cooler In many ways, the recent #BuyTwitter campaign has been a watershed, breakout moment for the #PlatformCoop movement. While, up to that point, there’d …
Greetings fellow denizens of Twitter, I’m Astra Taylor, a filmmaker, musician, activist, and writer. A few years ago I wrote a book called The People’s Platform, which looks at how …
Cross-posted with the P2P Foundation blog David Bollier and I (see David’s post from yesterday) had the pleasure of meeting Janosch Sbeih and Jérôme Birolini (“The Reciprokans”) at the Open 2017: …
by Robert Benjamin (@coopkungfu) In recent months, people around the world have been calling for Twitter to sell to its users. This was sparked in large part by the reoccurring …
by Ana Jamborcic We are a team of developers that helped to build some of the Bernie Sanders campaign tech and want to extend this and make it available to …
by Six Slberman Originally published at wtf.tw This talk is loosely based on a paper that was published in the “design fictions” track of the proceedings of the 2016 Association …
by Dr Rory Ridley-Duff, Sheffield Business School The recent Guardian article (“Here’s my plan to save Twitter: let’s buy it”, 29th Sept) by Nathan Schneider argues for the transformation of …
by Thomas Euler also published at Medium.com About two weeks ago I came across a group which was just forming at the internet’s edges. It’s mission statement: To acquire Twitter …
