#techcoops — Public Fediverse posts

Workers, producers, consumers, and others have been establishing cooperatives and other community-led associations to pool resources, share benefits, and address socioeconomic challenges for centuries. The United Nations marked 2025 as the year of cooperatives, positioning them as “essential solutions to today’s global problems,” kindling renewed interest in data collectives and cooperatives.

They cover a wide range: The Kerala Food Platform enables about 2,500 farmers in the southern Indian state to trace and market their produce, including rice, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Mexico-based PescaData helps small-scale fishers in Latin America and the Caribbean to manage and benefit from their catch records, while the Native BioData Consortium is a repository of the genetic and environmental data of Indigenous people.

Increasingly, data sets are being created for AI-related purposes, including in low-resource language communities, whose data, including voice data, is valuable for training small models and creating speech recognition tools. For these communities, a data collective is a more practical solution, [Raffi] Krikorian said.

https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-collectives-mozilla/

#digitalsovereignty #community #publicinteresttech #openweb #digitalcommons #cooperatives #coops #techcoops

Workers, producers, consumers, and others have been establishing cooperatives and other community-led associations to pool resources, share benefits, and address socioeconomic challenges for centuries. The United Nations marked 2025 as the year of cooperatives, positioning them as “essential solutions to today’s global problems,” kindling renewed interest in data collectives and cooperatives.

They cover a wide range: The Kerala Food Platform enables about 2,500 farmers in the southern Indian state to trace and market their produce, including rice, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Mexico-based PescaData helps small-scale fishers in Latin America and the Caribbean to manage and benefit from their catch records, while the Native BioData Consortium is a repository of the genetic and environmental data of Indigenous people.

Increasingly, data sets are being created for AI-related purposes, including in low-resource language communities, whose data, including voice data, is valuable for training small models and creating speech recognition tools. For these communities, a data collective is a more practical solution, [Raffi] Krikorian said.

https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-collectives-mozilla/

#digitalsovereignty #community #publicinteresttech #openweb #digitalcommons #cooperatives #coops #techcoops

I'm in Berlin until Sunday :hamster_dance:

If you're into #freeSoftware, #decentralisation, #cooperatives, #socialism, #anarchism, #workersUnion, #rojava or other rad stuff; I want to meet you for a nice discussion over a beer, tea, club mate or beverage of your choice :heart_cyber:

I'll be dropping by the #dwebcamp site, probably on Saturday (but won't enter because it's too expensive), so if you're around Alte Hölle we could also meet there.

About me: I'm a bit under 30 yrs old, I present mostly masculine. I organize for grassroots democratization in all aspects of society; political, social, economic, technological. Free technology enjoyer and contributor.
I believe we need to build international bonds between emancipatory movements, and that our movements need tech under movement control (no big tech).

#internationalism #fediask #ccc #dweb #freifunk #p2p #p4p #techcoops #commons #communism #mayfirst

I'm in Berlin until Sunday :hamster_dance:

If you're into #freeSoftware, #decentralisation, #cooperatives, #socialism, #anarchism, #workersUnion, #rojava or other rad stuff; I want to meet you for a nice discussion over a beer, tea, club mate or beverage of your choice :heart_cyber:

I'll be dropping by the #dwebcamp site, probably on Saturday (but won't enter because it's too expensive), so if you're around Alte Hölle we could also meet there.

About me: I'm a bit under 30 yrs old, I present mostly masculine. I organize for grassroots democratization in all aspects of society; political, social, economic, technological. Free technology enjoyer and contributor.
I believe we need to build international bonds between emancipatory movements, and that our movements need tech under movement control (no big tech).

#internationalism #fediask #ccc #dweb #freifunk #p2p #p4p #techcoops #commons #communism #mayfirst

@limeleaf Alright, great stuff! Then I'll tag all accounts I know.
And everyone please boost this post, so all can contribute in the replies, as we only know a friction of the existing tech coops.
We want to extend the mastodon starter pack: https://fedidevs.com/s/MjM4/

@coopcloud @[email protected] @unicode @VillageOneCoop @LIT_Local_IT @Jointech @datenkollektiv @makeUtopia @autonomic @klasse_methode @tierra_comun @Coopdevs

#techcoop #techcoops #coops #coop #starterpack

@limeleaf Alright, great stuff! Then I'll tag all accounts I know.
And everyone please boost this post, so all can contribute in the replies, as we only know a friction of the existing tech coops.
We want to extend the mastodon starter pack: https://fedidevs.com/s/MjM4/

@coopcloud @[email protected] @unicode @VillageOneCoop @LIT_Local_IT @Jointech @datenkollektiv @makeUtopia @autonomic @klasse_methode @tierra_comun @Coopdevs

#techcoop #techcoops #coops #coop #starterpack

Wow, we just attended the @patio general assembly. 23 organisers from tech worker co-operative worldwide. Very energising.

We demand democracy and freedom instead of authoritarian tech dystopia. Join us in the international struggle!

Hack the planet! :fediverse: 🌏 🏴‍☠️

#techcoops #coops #foss #democracy #patio

Wow, we just attended the @patio general assembly. 23 organisers from tech worker co-operative worldwide. Very energising.

We demand democracy and freedom instead of authoritarian tech dystopia. Join us in the international struggle!

Hack the planet! :fediverse: 🌏 🏴‍☠️

#techcoops #coops #foss #democracy #patio

We have created a new internationalist Matrix chat for folks looking to start new democratic tech worker co-operatives.

https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

:boost_ok:

#workercoops #coops #techcoops #workersownership

We have created a new internationalist Matrix chat for folks looking to start new democratic tech worker co-operatives.

https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

:boost_ok:

#workercoops #coops #techcoops #workersownership

Hi folks,

@coopcloud community members made a new Matrix channel for folks looking to start new tech co-ops. Soon to be a Matrix space.

Feel free to come say hi:
https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

Autonomic gets a lot of people asking if we need new members. We're going to direct them here now to see if they can find networks online to approach starting their own co-ops.

:boost_ok: :fediverse:

#coops #techcoops #workercoops #jobs #getfedihired #fedihire

Hi folks,

@coopcloud community members made a new Matrix channel for folks looking to start new tech co-ops. Soon to be a Matrix space.

Feel free to come say hi:
https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

Autonomic gets a lot of people asking if we need new members. We're going to direct them here now to see if they can find networks online to approach starting their own co-ops.

:boost_ok: :fediverse:

#coops #techcoops #workercoops #jobs #getfedihired #fedihire

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.

(1/?)

#cooperatives #TechCoOps #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.

(1/?)

#cooperatives #TechCoOps #PlatformCoops

Worker Ownership Is Resistance

https://limeleaf.net/blog/worker-ownership-is-resistance/

#Resist #Coops #TechCoops #WorkersRights

Worker Ownership Is Resistance

https://limeleaf.net/blog/worker-ownership-is-resistance/

#Resist #Coops #TechCoops #WorkersRights

Morgen, Tag 3, 14 Uhr: Arbeiten im #Kollektiv #TechCoops #38C3 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/event/tech-coops-arbeiten-im-it-kollektiv/

Am Sonntag machen die #techcoops um 14 Uhr ein q&a zum #kollektivenArbeiten im komona tablespace oder kommt zur techcoops assembly. #38C3

Wir haben unsere #techcoops Assembly beim #38C3 in Halle H neben komona.

Wir werden dieses Jahr übrigens beim #38C3 dabei sein. Zusammen mit den anderen #Kollektiv|en aus dem #TechCoops Verband haben wir sogar eine Assembly.
Wenn ihr wollt bekommt ihr schöne Sticker bei uns.

A list of tech co-ops around the world;

https://tech-coops.xyz/

Some of them are presumably platform co-ops;

https://directory.platform.coop/

So hopefully the people curating these lists are aware of each other's work.

#cooperatives #TechCoops #PlatformCooperatives

A list of tech co-ops around the world;

https://tech-coops.xyz/

Some of them are presumably platform co-ops;

https://directory.platform.coop/

So hopefully the people curating these lists are aware of each other's work.

#cooperatives #TechCoops #PlatformCooperatives

Excellent interview with Common Knowledge (https://twitter.com/cmmonknowledge) on the General Intellect Unit (https://twitter.com/giunitpod) podcast 👽

http://generalintellectunit.net/e/068-common-knowledge/

rss feed: http://generalintellectunit.net/feed.xml

We've not heard a more honest exploration of #coops #techcoops and #cotech

Absolute goldmine of info. If you're looking for a starting point for learning about co-ops. This is it.

We need to build radical infrastructure NOW. This includes tech infrastructure. There isn't any time to waste. Join the solidarity economy :ecosocialism:

:boost_ok:

We're still here 🦄 Still ticking over ♥️ Still cooperating 🌈 Still hacking the planet 🌍

I think we're going to try and be a bit more communicative on our blog/Twitter/Fediverse this year.

#coops #techcoops #workercoops