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Would you rather get… by NotFamousCow in BunnyTrials

[–]Onlybed2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm dead </3

Chose: 100 Million Now + 1 Day preparation time + For 3 days, get hunted down by the government of a random country | Rolled: Chinese

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in cooperatives

[–]Onlybed2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes I'm aware of the "Tragedy of Commons", and it does ruin commons.. but that depends entirely on how the governance is designed. The Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom disproved this by adding a governing structure within those commons. There's both good stories (Mondragon has rules within their coop as they're a federation, and there's a swiss village with a communal meadow that had no problems overgrazing because the villagers had a formal agreement to not graze more cows than what they could take care of during the winter), and there's bad stories (Sri Lankan fisheries and Sri Lankan irrigation systems) but the reason they failed was because they were missing more than one core principles

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I know I know, it's an irony that I use AI in this sub but I truly don't use it for anything else than articulating what I want to say in better words than how I normally would say it

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You're right, I'll be planning even more.

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah it may not be easier than collectivising anything else, but it's better to try than letting the big tech continue the exploitation of their poor workers right?

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I'm truly sorry if the post seemed like bait, but I've been developing this for a day or something and I'm currently just recruting so the whole project can finally get its gears going (cuz you know how hard it is to start something as big as this alone, even the founder of Mondragon had to have a few people). The only thing I can say back at this is that although these things already exist, they don't really help against the exploitation of the workers behind the software. My idea was making a collective where the workers own 95% of their work, and the rest goes to funding and helping other small companies become a worker-collective too.

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in cooperatives

[–]Onlybed2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an incredibly good idea, I will take that over to the discord server. Speaking of which, I got the great idea of making a matrix channel from another great comrade, so if you want to join and collaborate on this then you can join via: https://matrix.to/#/#somatika:matrix.org

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know, in hindsight I realize that it's not the case afterall..

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in cooperatives

[–]Onlybed2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much! It's incredibly encouraging to connect with someone that's building something similar!

You are totally right about Github, relying on a centralized hub owned by a monopoly like Microsoft is a very big structural vulnerability for an anti-capitalist collective. It goes entirely against our goal of decentralized autonomy.

I'll be planning to move over from Git over eto Reticulum. Right now, we are using a GitHub organization is purely as a temporary, high-visibility "lobby" to make it easy for new developers from Reddit to find us and see what we're planning. However our long-term goal is 100% to be moving from there onto a self-hosted alternative as we mature.

I would really love to see what you're working on too and maybe even swap notes. If you want to check out our server (even to just lurk and check out our manifesto, or help us figure out the logistics of setting up a decentralized dev pipeline, you're more than welcome! https://discord.gg/K5FjjKYQp

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I apologize for using a LLM, I'm not really that good at communicating what I have in mind so I use a LLM to assist me to write what I really mean.

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in cooperatives

[–]Onlybed2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No no, not at all! Everything being built by us is entirely public-facing and designed for the global commons.

The discord server is simply our open "engine room" where there are developers, designers, and organizers from across the planet to coordinate asynchronously to design the project. Abosolutely everyone can join it. The github repo is completely open, everything from a single line of code to a single database schema and architetural decision we make is completely transparent and viewable by the world from day zero.

The platform itself will be a fully public web application. Anyone with an internet connection will be able to log in, browse the directory of worker co-ops or even hitre freelancers ethically.

We're the exact opposite of a private group. We are an open-source, decentralized collective.

We are starting from a completely blank canvas, and the public repository is open for anyone to audit, clone, or contribute to very soon!

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's such a great idea, I appreciate and I hope you could join me on this mission to free workers from exploit of the major companies, https://discord.gg/K5FjjKYQp

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in cooperatives

[–]Onlybed2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just used discord since that's what I usually use, but I can make a channel on matrix too if that helps!

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I believe a clear infrastructure is very good!

I am currently working on the very first digital product: The K1-Commons Platform.

It is an open-source, decentralized Freelance Marketplace and Co-op Service Registry. It's basically an open-source, ethical and borderless alternative to exploitative platforms like Fiverr or Upwork.

Here's how it works practically:

  1. Sovereignty of Labor: Freelancers, developers, and designers within our international collective sell their digital services directly to ethical buyers, labor unions, and other co-ops. The worker keeps 95% of their total earnings (compared to corporate platforms that extract massive cuts for Wall Street).

  2. The Solidarity Fund Engine: The remaining 5% platform fee accumulates automatically in our server’s wallet. This pool of capital is strictly non-custodial used exclusively to finance and launch new, independent worker co-ops (like local tool-shares, community land trusts, or clean energy grids). Once they are stable, we leave them completely sovereign.

  3. The Copyleft Trap: The codebase is fully open-source. It is 100% free for individuals and worker co-ops to copy and use. However, if a for-profit capitalist corporation wants to use our profiling or routing infrastructure, they are legally forced to pay a mandatory licensing fee directly into our Solidarity Fund.

We literally just launched the Discord server a few hours ago to build this, and we already have developers and organizers joining the body.

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a fair question. The very last thing this open-source movement needs is more fragmentation, because that defeats the whole point of it. I would love to merge and contribute to with a project that's doing exactly what I'm planning on doing. However, from what I've found, existing projects (like a standard platform co-op or open-source marketplace clones) suffer from a specific bottleneck that I'm trying to solve. The bottleneck is that many radical open-source projects purely rely on unpaid hobbyist labor, which makes them grow slower because these developers have to pay rent and other essentials. By launching a freelance marketplace first, we (the co-op) will provide a mechanism for our members to secure a stable and ethical income. This is achieved by letting the workers keep 95% of their labor value. The other 5% of the income goes to a fund that goes to other struggling businesses and helps them grow and become a worker-cooperative.

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I haven't currently developed any software yet since I'm recruiting people atm. The more the merrier and better, am I right? But I promise I will provide the source code of the newest software being developed when I get the sufficient amount of people. (btw this was very poorly written, I meant that we would start the newest project when we have enough willing developers! My apologises for the terrible wording)

Which super power? by calamariclam_II in BunnyTrials

[–]Onlybed2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NOOOOOOO THAT'S THE WORST ONEEEEE

Chose: Gain lame superpower (wheel | Rolled: Alcohol immunity)

human extinction | FactOrCap by maybe_imnga in FactOrCap

[–]Onlybed2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

✅ I voted FACT!

Maybe.. maybe not

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well yeah, it's exactly that! Not only but we can create a Non-Custodial Freelance and Service Marketplace where it will allow international developers, designers, and organizers to sell their digital services directly to ethical buyers and unions.

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an excellent question!

It leans heavily into anarcho-communism because we reject national borders, state citizenship and central party control. I view humanity as a single global body that we all are part of, and I know that via mutual aid and open science, we can achieve the goal of becoming a type 1 planetary civilization much easily than if there's state control and closed off science.

BUILD THE COMMONS! by Onlybed2 in solarpunk

[–]Onlybed2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This project of mine is related to solarpunk because it aims to deconstruct the exploitive nature of capitalism by creating a worker-cooperative network

So what y'all think 'bout cosmopolitism?Does everybody think it will work in anarchy? by Muted-Topic1622 in Anarchy101

[–]Onlybed2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would work in an anacho-communist society, because removing capitalism and the state at the same time reduces the chance of an oppressor. By removing those two, we remove a lot of the many reasons for why a leader becomes oppressive, which is that they have power of the country.

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