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Has any technical product ever organized as a co op and been successful? Such a weird criticism…

• longtimelistnr 4y ago
  It’s not a weird criticism. May not be unrealistic to be a co-op, fine that’s difficult. But don’t lie and say there’s no profit incentive to be had when there clearly is if owners of the platform are separate from individual users
• itslennysfault 4y ago
  The jury is obviously still out, but I think The Drivers Cooperative is pretty successful, and I'm optimistic that it will continue to be. https://drivers.coop/ https://drivers.coop/
• planb 4y ago
  Has any social network ever focused on users well-being and been successful? I think it’s not criticism but an interesting idea.
  • CitrusFruits 4y ago
    I too, am curious. It seems like Mastodon and other federated networks definitely have user well being and autonomy as a goal. However, for whatever reason, most of the more popular federated networks seem to aspire to be "X, but federated" instead of having drastically different user experiences.
• beaconstudios 4y ago
  Quite a few! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_cooperative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_cooperative I think it's a valid concern to ask about incentive alignment - if you're wanting to do a tech-for-good project, you probably want to make sure that profiteering doesn't become the primary driver at a later date by making a Ulysses pact [1]. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact