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.

Seeking alternatives to online services not based on exploitation and extraction – of user data, privacy, profit, control, resources – and which actively resist takeover and consolidation of control and wealth in the hands of a few large corporations, indeed a few super-wealthy individuals.

While the centralization of control in a few US based companies is a specific problem, simply having a “Canadian alternative” does not automatically resolve the issues of an extractive capitalist model, and does not provide resistance against consolidation and centralization of control.

Provide independent, non-capitalist online services for everyone

• not dependent on Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
• 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

Some napkin math, or Feasibility Study.

Some links about cooperatives in BC and Canada.