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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 07/08/2026

Berlin Aug 25 Who Owns The Platform? www.pop-kultur.berlin/en/event/who...

austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 24/07/2026

the world's largest worker cooperative was founded by a priest he saw cooperatives as the best way to organize businesses and our economy a way to create dignity and benefit for workers now pragmatic steps towards heaven on earth, not just in the afterlife

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 10/07/2026

This is just a setting on Cloudflare AI virtue pandering

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 22/04/2026

Subvert had a meetup in Melbourne, Australia last weekend No central planning, no sign off - just a member taking the initiative to organize They made an unofficial smaller staple-bound zine to culture jam around Melbourne

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 21/04/2026

"Direct-to-artist" platforms take 15% off the top. That's not direct! That's a middleman. On Subvert, artists and labels pay 0% platform fees. At checkout, buyers can choose to contribute to the co-op. Across our first 1,000 transactions, the average contribution is 45.3% (!)

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 14/04/2026

@subvert.fm published the most comprehensive and well-considered AI policy for a music platform. It was written by 68 artists. If you think that artists aren't capable of self-governance, it's your paternalism and lack of imagination that we are fighting against

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 20/03/2026

We can compliantly serve 120 countries. That is 99.7% of people that have signed up. The majority of the remaining 0.3% aren't served by paypal either Be aware that there are different lists of stripe supported countries being floated and some of them are misinterpretations or misinformation

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 05/03/2026

“As part of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper. Day advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism, which she considered a third way between capitalism and socialism”

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 03/03/2026

A prayer card for the founder of Mondragon “Work is the only prayer that is always answered.”

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 02/03/2026

Resonate co-op has formally shut down. Credit to the team for trying something big and inspiring a lot of people

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 10/10/2025

Saw Corey Doctorow talk to Lina Khan last night about enshittification Loved the point about the limitations of founder virtue Founders may see themselves as omni-benevolent, but they’re not omni-competent. Corporate benevolent dictatorships are not durable

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 16/08/2025

From Caroline Woolard in "Ours to Hack and to Own": "So You Want To Start a Platform Cooperative"

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 05/08/2025

Put it in your calendar. The most peaceful week in New York is coming up.

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 02/08/2025

I think we should have democracy in both spheres: our government and also our workplaces Even though I think Curtis yarvin is wrong, he’s consistent (anti-democratic) 99% of libs are happy to be someone’s dictator at work

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 30/06/2025

a 1% tax on West Village Girls to pay for free buses

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 27/06/2025

Tech Twitter leaving NYC after Zohran makes buses free

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 26/06/2025

DJ Brooklyn 🤝 Podcast Brooklyn

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 20/06/2025

I used to think that Daniel Ek was just a rich out of touch dweeb But this is actually evil Extracting value from artists in order to fund AI murdering machines

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 03/06/2025

I’d love to see a list of companies that opted out of pride logos this year

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 25/03/2025

Inspired by the Garden 3D presentation at SVA last night One of the most innovative and creative businesses -Workers choose their salaries -Everyone can log into the bank account -Profit sharing -Phantom equity program for all workers

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 01/02/2025

My most old man quality: If I’m in a city with Roman Empire ruins, I’m going to visit them

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 01/02/2025

In Braga, Portugal for Square 25 conference fest Talked about community ownership in music and met several @subvert.fm members

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 25/01/2025

I’ve read every Godin book. This is the best writing on systems and systems change I’ve come across

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 01/12/2024

I don’t remember how I discovered this book. It was in 2018 and it changed my life. I remember being so excited by the ideas that I was pacing in my apartment. @trebors2025.bsky.social @ntnsndr.in

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austin robey @austinrobey.xyz · 21/11/2024

What I see when I open X (1) musk, ad, musk (2) musk, actual tweet, musk (3) musk, musk This man has overplayed his hand

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