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I was just thinking about how to start talking about this. I think the most important thing we can do is support our communities. Both smaller local communities, and larger online ones. Keep your money in your community.

Any current co-ops or communities that you would take inspiration from?

I look (admittedly from the outside) at communities/projects such as @bomb.sh and @e18e.dev and take inspiration. Co-ops are obviously a whole other thing. In the past I've come across things like www.workers.coop and www.coops.tech Would love people who know more than me to share here.

I have looked into making @bomb.sh a co-op! The corporate infrastructure available in the US is, unsurprisingly, not very amenable to that structure! @igalia.com is probably the gold standard. Spain legally supports worker cooperative companies in a way that would be very complex to pull off here.

1. Yes 2. Concretely, how?

Okay here's the plan. We take the selfless behaviour I've personally seen you exhibit in other places, bottle it, and distrib at scale.* *Jk I'm aware that these are structural problems not solved individually and that a logic of self-sacrifice is almost certainly not the answer.

TBH the only thing in my way are nagging-Virgo-brain questions like “what corporate shape and legal agreements need to exist” and “how to make it structurally impossible for bad actors including potentially myself from breaking it later”