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An Online Services Cooperative (.ca)
Elevator Pitch
A Canada based worker-owned cooperative that provides commodity online services such as email, file hosting, photo hosting, etc.
Motivation
Provide independant, non-capitalist online services for people
- not dependent on Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
- not even Fastmail, Proton or other for-profit companies
- no shareholders demanding profit growth
- no ads, no data extraction, no exploitative LLMs, etc.
Employment and ownership for workers
- protect health, life balance, financial stability
- resilience against takeover, outsourcing, enshittification
Do a small socialism, from inside capitalism
- redirect the money from from corporations and shareholders, to workers
- plant a small seed that may grow and contribute to a growing coop ecosystem