Aaron<p>The more a nation's economy takes the form of cooperatives, the lower the wealth inequality in that nation.</p><p>Graphs taken from:<br /> <a href="https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/scced/article/1017/&path_info=Worker_Cooperatives_as_an_Innovative_Strategy_to_Address_Income_Inequality.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/c</span><span class="invisible">gi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/scced/article/1017/&path_info=Worker_Cooperatives_as_an_Innovative_Strategy_to_Address_Income_Inequality.pdf</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention">@<span>fightfascism</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cooperatives</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/E2C" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>E2C</span></a></p>
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Aaron<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.social/@sebinthestars" class="u-url mention">@<span>sebinthestars</span></a></span> IDK if it's suitable or not in this case, but please give some consideration to an "exit to community" -- conversion to a cooperative, with a transition to someone else managing it, possibly with a payout to you for your prior service if the community has the $$.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/e2c" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>e2c</span></a></p>
Nathan Schneider<p>Commissioner Hester Peirce now talking at the National Press Club on a kind of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/exittocommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exittocommunity</span></a> trajectory for tokenized projects—from centralized disclosure to decentralized control.</p>
Strypey<p>Last comment on this for 2024. I note that although other Matrix-based commercial hosts are now funding a lot more of the Matrix Foundation costs, the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>element</span></a></span> company still plays a outsized role in the development of the Matrix protocol. Especially on the funding side.</p><p>So I'd be interested to see a blog post from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matthew" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>matthew</span></a></span> and the team on what they see their exit from VC looking like.</p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Matrix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/VC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a></p>
mirlo.space<p>This talk looks like it'll be very good</p><p><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/07/how-has-structural-racism-held-back-co-op-movement" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">0/07/how-has-structural-racism-held-back-co-op-movement</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://musician.social/tags/exittocommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exittocommunity</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/cooperative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cooperative</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a></p>
Nathan Schneider<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://triangletoot.party/@beckett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>beckett</span></a></span> @mweagle <a href="https://social.coop/tags/exittocommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exittocommunity</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"We have always been committed to supporting ... the long tail of collectives that are using <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/OpenCollective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenCollective</span></a> to make an impact in the world. In 2022 we began exploring what an ‘exit to community’ would look like, placing the future of Open Collective in the hands of those who depend on it.</p><p>I truly believe that this is the only way to protect Open Collective’s mission so we decided to make it happen!"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PiaMancini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PiaMancini</span></a>, 2024</p><p><a href="https://blog.opencollective.com/the-open-collective-platform-is-moving-to-a-community-governed-non-profit/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.opencollective.com/the-op</span><span class="invisible">en-collective-platform-is-moving-to-a-community-governed-non-profit/</span></a></p><p>Legends!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PlatformCooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlatformCooperatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a></p>
Nathan Schneider<p>The <a href="https://social.coop/tags/exittocommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exittocommunity</span></a> of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.opencollective.com/@opencollective" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>opencollective</span></a></span> to a user-governed nonprofit is big news for those of us who rely on it, including <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Socialcoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socialcoop</span></a> members.</p>
Ed Summers<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@ntnsndr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ntnsndr</span></a></span> given the Google monopoly ruling, and the possibility that their payments to Mozilla will dry up, I wonder if there has been any talk of Mozillla trying an <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a>? Maybe it's too big to even think about, but how cool would it be to use a web browser maintained by a <a href="https://social.coop/tags/coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coop</span></a>?</p>
Nathan Schneider<p>I have often blamed venture capital for the problems of tech. But what if the exits VCs were after were <a href="https://social.coop/tags/exittocommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exittocommunity</span></a>? Could VC be redeemed? Let's go upstream to the source.</p>
Nathan Schneider<p>It's out! On KGNU radio in Colorado and as a podcast, my interview with Anjali and James Young, founders of Collab.Land—on their <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ExittoCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExittoCommunity</span></a> into a token-enabled co-op: <a href="https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-do-you-give-a-technology-to-its-community/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-d</span><span class="invisible">o-you-give-a-technology-to-its-community/</span></a></p>
Nathan Schneider<p>Do you have term sheets or bylaws conducive to <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ExittoCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExittoCommunity</span></a>? We're interested in creating a library to help accelerate experimentation. Let me know if you can contribute.</p>
Nathan Schneider<p>As Reddit goes public, remember that so much of its success comes from the extent to which it enabled <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GovernableSpaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernableSpaces</span></a> among its users.</p><p>Why another IPO and not an <a href="https://social.coop/tags/exittocommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exittocommunity</span></a>? See the library of examples at <a href="https://e2c.how/library" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">e2c.how/library</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Aaron<p>I actually had someone reach out to me today about starting a company around some of my previous work on "explainable AI" -- machine learning that results in human-interpretable results, as opposed to the inscrutable tables of numbers that make up neural networks. This is pretty exciting stuff to me, because I've wanted to start a business along these lines for a long time. I also got to introduce someone to the concept of "exit to community", so +1 for social activism, too. And the timing couldn't be better, given the layoff I was just caught by.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/startup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>startup</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/e2c" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>e2c</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ExplainableAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExplainableAI</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a></p>
Billy Smith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Jeramee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Jeramee</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.1146.nohost.me/@lps" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lps</span></a></span> </p><p>Good group to ask this question would be the Blender Foundation.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://video.blender.org/accounts/blender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>blender</span></a></span> </p><p>In the late 90's, Blender was a proprietary professional animation suite that was competing with Adobe.</p><p>They did an <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a> which is why it's now FLOSS. :D</p><p>There are still some early show-reels out there from ad agencies that were using Blender then, and are continuing to use Blender now. :D</p><p>I remember seeing the BaskinRobbins animated fridge ad on TV, and later finding it on Youtube. :D</p>
Luis Villa<p>This database of community-owned software/service initiatives (spanning from Defector to a solar coop) is thought-provoking in a good way. </p><p>Given post-GReader/Evernote/etc. declining elite trust in VC-backed startups, I wonder if there's a funding-time playbook for (p)re-building trust through planned "in case of failure, break glass". <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/e2c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>e2c</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@daspitzberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>daspitzberg</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://e2c.how/library" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">e2c.how/library</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
gittaca<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nrw.social/@Chaotica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Chaotica</span></a></span> In diesem Zusammenhang könnte <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ZebrasUnite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZebrasUnite</span></a> & <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a> hilfreich sein: <a href="https://zebrasunite.coop/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zebrasunite.coop/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> & <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/sites/default/files/attached-files/exittocommunityprimer-book.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">colorado.edu/lab/medlab/sites/</span><span class="invisible">default/files/attached-files/exittocommunityprimer-book.pdf</span></a></p>
Nathan Schneider<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@heif" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heif</span></a></span> The model made sense. Meetup gets revenue from its users. It is in the business of communities. A co-op model, accountable to fee-paying members, made perfect sense. </p><p>But of course potential investors just didn't know how that would work. It isn't done. There isn't policy infrastructure for that kind of conversion, that kind of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/exittocommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exittocommunity</span></a>. Meetup got bought by an investment fund.</p>
Ed Summers<p>This post from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.acc.umu.se/@pettter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pettter</span></a></span> has me wondering if there are any efforts yet to start to think about what a similar <a href="https://social.coop/tags/coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coop</span></a> run service might look like?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acc.umu.se/@pettter/111249022267794376" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.acc.umu.se/@pettter/1</span><span class="invisible">11249022267794376</span></a></p><p>It seems like Bandcamp is past the startup stage where it could <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a>?<br><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2020/08/31/exit-community-community-primer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2020/0</span><span class="invisible">8/31/exit-community-community-primer</span></a></p><p>As much as I personally align with decentralization, there does seem to be some value in a centralized platform for managing payments, storage and discovery for artists whose livelihood depends on trust.</p><p>2/3</p>
Ed Summers<p>As I pay my $50 subscription fee to pobox.com I'm daydreaming about what it would've looked like if the users formed a co-op to run it instead of selling to Fastmail:</p><p><a href="https://e2c.how/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">e2c.how/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ExitToCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExitToCommunity</span></a></p>
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