Everyday people ask us where to start with their transition towards #digitalautonomy. And there is no easy answer, unfortunately. Well, the fundamental aspect with autonomy is that many people and communities are working it their way, addressing the specific needs of their community, and that is how it should be.

Lessons learnt by many of us on this field: co-create services that address those specific needs of the community, and build in democratic processes, through #commons governance and #cooperative membership where adequate, sharing knowledge internally and externally, connecting to other communities.

And there, I find my motivation: to connect the fragmented communities, coordinate efforts to build up better value propositions.

That is for me one of the key things to be contributing to the #DemocraticTechFund, to weave networks, to share transition strategies, to document what is missing, to put in motion campaigns to mobilise more people and resources to go together.

Everyday people ask us where to start with their transition towards #digitalautonomy. And there is no easy answer, unfortunately. Well, the fundamental aspect with autonomy is that many people and communities are working it their way, addressing the specific needs of their community, and that is how it should be.

Lessons learnt by many of us on this field: co-create services that address those specific needs of the community, and build in democratic processes, through #commons governance and #cooperative membership where adequate, sharing knowledge internally and externally, connecting to other communities.

And there, I find my motivation: to connect the fragmented communities, coordinate efforts to build up better value propositions.

That is for me one of the key things to be contributing to the #DemocraticTechFund, to weave networks, to share transition strategies, to document what is missing, to put in motion campaigns to mobilise more people and resources to go together.

Thomas #Piketty just called for #degrowth, but he chickened out before actually using the word so (hilariously) called it " #sobriety".

https://wid.world/document/prosperity-within-limits-planetary-habitability-global-convergence-and-structural-transformation-2026-2100-world-inequality-lab-working-paper-2026-03/

#esg #climate #capitalism #enshittification #foss #commons #earth #EnoughNotMore

Thomas #Piketty just called for #degrowth, but he chickened out before actually using the word so (hilariously) called it " #sobriety".

https://wid.world/document/prosperity-within-limits-planetary-habitability-global-convergence-and-structural-transformation-2026-2100-world-inequality-lab-working-paper-2026-03/

#esg #climate #capitalism #enshittification #foss #commons #earth #EnoughNotMore

Let's zoom in on a particular area of the commons: the #FreeSoftware movement and their #FOSS deliverables, where a strong #WorkingInPublic credo dominates. The noble focus is on offering open technologies, software and systems. But in their quest to uphold #SoftwareFreedom the overlooked aspect is #sustainability. The ability to not only sustain oneself, but also by extension the creative #commons one is part of. The commons is an entirely chaotic grassroots environment with very specific social dynamics that are not properly accounted for. Instead top-down "herding of cats" governance models that work in regular business environments, are attempted. These may work, but only in small organizational settings, and NOT at scale where they break down.

FOSS in this definition is NOT commons-based. For that we need #ChaordicCommons where FOSS is the deliverable and #SOSS initiatives the engines of delivery, #FSDL (Free software development lifecycle) supply chains.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems

#TIL about #CommonsDB;

"... a public registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works, to bring greater legal certainty to the reuse of digital content.

The registry uses content-derived, decentralized identifiers to ensure persistent recognition of digital content and rights information across formats, thereby providing greater legal certainty for reusing digital content."

https://www.commonsdb.org/

#commons #DigitalCommons #PublicDomain