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Autonomic is a hive mind of 12 people around the world, turning gentle chaos into websites, infrastructure, and design. 🌐 autonomic.zone ☁️ coopcloud.tech 🌻 sunbeam.city/@Autonomic ✉️ boop@autonomic.zone

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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 17/09/2026
Hobbyist/self hosting isn't enough sadly. It's not a strategy that scales well unless it evolves into a more organised form or the architecture is really advanced e.g. Tor, P2P, some fancy new thing etc.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 17/09/2026
Obviously this is our subjective analysis but we believe that they'll never be widespread adoption of open source web applications without community/co-op/sovereign hosting that is well supported and integrated.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 17/09/2026
We often work to support clients with SSO integration but lots of apps they want to deploy and integrate either don't support SSO, don't support it well or drawbridge the support behind licenses that don't suit our scale of client
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 17/09/2026
It's a shame more #floss don't have better single sign on support. It should be the standard e.g. provisioning groups. It really shouldn't be just a feature for large enterprises. It's kind of a whole field of federation and identity that we don't talk about much.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 07/09/2026
Hi folks, we are looking for more work at the moment. Need to tend to your digital garden? Boutique infrastructure and websites from a worker co-operative 🌈🖥️ autonomic.zone #workercoops #coops
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Autonomic Co-operative
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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 06/09/2026
@hypha.coop @autonomic.zone @igalia.com @limeleaf.coop patio.coop and a bajillion more listed on tech-coops.xyz
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max @notplants.net · 19/05/2026
this spring we made and updated co-op cloud recipes for lasuite-docs lasuite-drive lasuite-meet cryptpad lichen-markdown made for @autonomic.zone and collective.tools, but all open source and in the configuration commons if anyone wants to use them git.coopcloud.tech
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Andre Should Be Writing @andreshouldwrite.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wrote a little piece about getting back into #SecureScuttlebutt #development. Today marks three months since I decided to fork and improve #Patchwork: andregarzia.com/2026/01/three-month… #SSB still my favourite #decentralization technology :3
a screenshot showing the books page in patchwork
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 09/02/2026
We offer managed or collaborative hosting of Matrix, Rocketchat, Mattermost and DeltaChat. Plenty of options for hosting location (UK, EU, Iceland, a provider of your choice or on prem). No drawbridging or per user pricing. You pay for our time and the server resources used. #techcoops #hosting
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 09/02/2026
No drawbridging or per user pricing. You pay for our time and the server resources used. We have strict guidelines against working for the military or other harmful industries: autonomic.zone/our-ethical-... #hosting
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Our Ethical Guidelines
At Autonomic we do not work with actors involved in, or significantly tied to, the following industries: Weapons manufacturing Military contracting Surveillance technology Gambling Fos...
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 09/02/2026
We offer managed or collaborative hosting of Matrix, Rocketchat, Mattermost and DeltaChat. Plenty of options for hosting location (UK, EU, Iceland, a provider of your choice or on prem). No drawbridging or per user pricing. You pay for our time and the server resources used. #techcoops #hosting
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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025
Good news everyone! We hit our first milestone: maintenance is 100% funded. Thank you all ❤️ Next up: unlock the stretch goal to co‑design federated groups: community‑owned spaces to organise across the fediverse, with no server or platform lock‑in. Read about why this matters and how it can […]
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Boris @bmann.ca · 07/11/2025
I’m going to back them and figure out a community to run this for. Maybe a @dwebyvr.org / #CommonsComputer project. They are working with Co-Op Cloud, a Docker Swarm based cloud infra system built by @autonomic.zone that I still haven’t installed myself bmannconsulting.com/notes/co-op-...
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Co Op cloud
Website: https://coopcloud.techDocs: https://docs.coopcloud.tech Co-op Cloud aims to make hosting libre software apps simple for small service providers suc...
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 30/10/2025
Hi folks! @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy community members made a new Matrix channel for folks looking to start new tech co-ops. Soon to be a Matrix space. Feel free to come say hi: matrix.to#/%23techcoop...
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Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
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ammar (they/them) @ammaratef45.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
If you make it to @SeaGL this year, don't miss the RTM talk (pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/XE8TL3) and the @coopcloud talk (pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/BXX88L) #seattle #seagl2025 #tech
pretalx.seagl.org
Resist Tech Monopolies: Community Photo Hosting SeaGL 2025
Resist Tech Monopolies (RTM) is a collective that aims to build & support community alternatives to big tech. One of our projects is a self-hosted and distributed photo sharing application that will be an alternative to proprietary platforms like Google and iCloud Photos. Alternatives already exist; however, there are several barriers to more people adopting these tools, including cost of physical infrastructure, required tech skills, time and energy, and a lack of desired features. In this talk we present the case for resisting tech monopolies like Google Photos, go through the technical details of how we set up a community photo hosting platform, and share our lessons learned on the process.
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Kat Five @katfive.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So much of the internet down with the AWS issues. A painful reminder that even some more ethical services rely on Amazon. Who’s got alternatives to recommend? I’ve spotted @autonomic.zone’s Co-op Cloud for small tech providers.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 23/10/2025
Thanks for mentioning us! Co-op Cloud is actually a cooperatively governed software project that helps collectives spin up and manage their own infrastructure. If you're looking for non-corporate alternative to AWS run by rad people, we recommend our friends at capsul.org :)
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Capsul - Capsul
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 16/10/2025
Meanwhile on the Fediverse - exciting demo of Bonfire for Open Science! Enables creating highly configurable community spaces & also includes ORCID login + post to DOI conversion with Zenodo An ATProto integration for this would be 🔥 indieweb.social/@bonfire/115...
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Co-op Cloud @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025
@laboratoriodemedios is a finalist in the IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge 🎉 Please vote and support our friends at the Red Abya Yala Toolkit project 💗 You can leave a like/comment on the video and it counts as a vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMFdcHD-Z1U It's a great project […]
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 07/10/2025
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production. gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
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Building bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obso...
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 19/08/2025
Working in tech is weird and wobbly right now. So this month I joined a tech union. Maybe you should too? #uxdesign #techjobs #holdsteady
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Designer? Now is the right time to join a tech union | Open UX Design
Now is the time to claim and exercise what power you have as a designer, before it’s too late. The tech jobs market is changing. For devs and designers this is especially true, and we see it ourselve...
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
No Palantir in the NHS and Corporate Watch reveal the real story behind Palantir's NHS data platform rolllout in a NEW REPORT out now! corporatewatch.org/foi-requests... #NoPalantirintheNHS @medact.bsky.social @justtreatment.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 04/03/2025
GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimism in an update from founder @kim.town. gfsc.community/the-future-o...
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Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!
GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimi...
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School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study · 29/07/2025
How do we cultivate infrastructures of solidarity with each other? Join us in September to explore grassroots ways of building independent tools outside techno-capitalism in Solidarity Infrastructures, taught online by Meghna Mahadevan, @notplants.bsky.social & hushpuppie io ༻ Apply @ sfpc.study
Poster with a deep purple background and chalk-style drawing of satellites, power lines, mountains, solar panels, and tech equipment forming an imaginative network. The course is titled “Solidarity Infrastructures” and taught by Meghna Mahadevan and Max Fowler with Io Hushpuppie. Description reads: “Build infrastructure outside a techno-capitalist worldview.”Text on a dreamy purple and yellow background describes the class exploring topics like the slow web, organic internet, data sovereignty, minimal computing, and anti-computing. It highlights how community tech and cultural organizing intersect. The text emphasizes collective values and ecological grounding over traditional high/low-tech dichotomies. At the bottom, there's an oval photo of a person using a wood-burning tool on a craft board with trees in the background.
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 28/07/2025
Most communities have zero experience or capital to self host anything. That's why they all end up on discord. What are we doing to fix that? What if your community could pool storage to self host it's own images? What if the network of compute that runs the service was maintained cooperatively?
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 23/07/2025
Thank you to the great Colorado-founded @catalyst.coop for this deep-dive on worker co-op management & governance!  And thank you GEO Collective for publishing: geo.coop/articles/wha...
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What It's Like to Work at a Tech Worker Co-op
Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. Catalyst's...
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Alt Text Hall of Fame @alttexthalloffame.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025
Keep your alt text short, but don't be afraid to add a little whimsy. Describe colors. And more tips! stefanbohacek.com/blog/polls-about-… #AltText #accessibility #SocialMedia
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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
To the folks who insist worker ownership isn't compatible with "human nature"—we have empirical research over decades that shows the exact opposite. Worker ownership and participation are linked to increases in satisfaction and productivity. Psychological ownership is a real, studied phenomenon.
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The Case for Employee Ownership - CLEO
The case for employee ownership is undisputed. As philanthropists and government leaders grapple with how to address both long-entrenched and newly-emerging forms of economic insecurity, there is no b...
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Chris Northwood @chrisn.xyz · 28/12/2023
Great piece of clear writing on organising from Geeks for Social Change, from political to community activities. Worth a read for anyone in an activist organiser capacity. kim.town/minimum-viab...
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Minimum Viable Organisations
Please note this is a work in progress! Basic principle: It should be easy (low emotional labour, low technical labour, zero cost) to start a project with a small group of people with shared goals.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 02/07/2025
Hi folks, we've received feedback about the pricing for our docs.coop hosting. We've decided to drop the price to £30/mo for a small Docs instance. This comes with an SSO provider (such as Keycloak or Authentik). Hit us up at boop@autonomic.zone if need help deGoogling your office suite!
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apply.coop @apply.coop · 02/07/2025
The @usworker.coop is #hiring! Check our the positions at apply.coop/workplaces/c... #jobs #coops
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U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Open jobs at U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...
screenshot of https://forest-restoration.eu/
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 15/06/2025
Hm. A "proof of concept" pull request that adds "preliminary ActivityPub support" to Bluesky. github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/p… Screenshots via bsky.app/profile/distraction.engine… #bluesky #fediverse #SocialMedia
A side-by-side view of the same account from Bluesky (left) and Mastodon (right). Both screenshots show the same profile picture, header image, and identical description.

The Bluesky username shows up as @chaos.distraction.engineer, while on the Mastodon side it's @chaos@distraction.engineer.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 16/06/2025
As far as we can tell, there are no plans for AI integration in the upstream project, and definitely no intention on our side to integrate AI in our hosted version :) But hey, you can't be too safe🤞
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
One of our fellow worker co-ops @autonomic.zone have developed a new collaborative document platform as alternative to Google, Microsoft etc - check it out docs.coop
docs.coop
Docs.coop – Co-operatively hosted open source document editing
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Vica @vicarogers.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
What a great list! I’d also add the excellent resources by radhr.org
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RadHR | Because humans are more than resources...
A space where groups and organisations invested in building a fairer and more equitable society come together to share the nuts and bolts of how we organise ourselves based on our values.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 15/06/2025
thank you for your contribution to the commons!
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 15/06/2025
If you're interested in testing a docs.coop instance, hit us up: boop@autonomic.zone We can't offer the same loss leader prices as USian tech mega corps but we do offer control and privacy over your infrastructure with full support provided by us. Hosted in the EU by a worker-owned co-op.
docs.coop
Docs.coop – Co-operatively hosted open source document editing
An ethical and open alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, and other corporate clouds.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 15/06/2025
There are some missing features as the upstream project is still in beta, however we feel with the sustainable funding model the project has, it's only going to get better and better. Here is their roadmap: github.com/orgs/numerique-gouv Here is our TODO list: git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/
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numerique-gouv
"Chief Technology Officer" de l'État, en charge de l'innovation numérique au service de l'efficacité de l'action publique - numerique-gouv
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 15/06/2025
It's early days and the project is still in beta but we have published an early version of a Co-op Cloud recipe (git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/) that makes it easier to deploy Docs for smaller organisations.
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Co-op Cloud Recipes
The Co-op Cloud config commons. All [recipes](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/glossary/#recipe) in one place. Toolshed is [here](https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed).
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 15/06/2025
We're thrilled to announce our new project: docs.coop! Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (docs.numerique.gouv.fr), we're offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.
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Docs.coop – Co-operatively hosted open source document editing
An ethical and open alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, and other corporate clouds.
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 13/06/2025
Modern computing is made possible by anarchist organizing. Free software runs the planet, and it's organized by anarchism. Anarchy works, the proof is all around you.
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max @notplants.net · 11/06/2025
excited to share the third round of class projects from solidarity infrastructures: from local archives of neighborhood street art, to an rfc for maintenance dinners, to a self-hosted signal directory, and many other experiments and reflections on servers and infrastructure infrastructures.us/e...
screenshot of website showing class links to class projects
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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
corporate overlords can't take html away from you! html is inside us
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Boris @bmann.ca · 30/03/2024
Demo video of live setup of Co-op Cloud stack with single sign on with Keycloak and running Matrix, Hometown (Mastodon fork), and Nextcloud. coopcloud.tech/blog/...
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Selfhosted Infrastructure Any%
A Co-op Cloud speedrun attempt livestream! Brought to you by by libre software.
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 13/06/2025
We have a passion for liberatory & collectively governed technology and love to collaborate with other co-ops and social good organisations. You can read more about us on our website: autonomic.zone
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 13/06/2025
Hi, friends! We set up this account quite a while back but never got around to posting a proper #introduction. We're Autonomic, a hive mind of 12 people around the world turning gentle chaos into websites, infrastructure, and design.
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Autonomic Co-op
Autonomic is a co-operative that is owned and run by its workers
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Autonomic Co-op @autonomic.zone · 13/06/2025
Thanks so much for the shout-out ♥️ To be clear though, we didn't develop the software. We're building on top of the excellent Docs Numerique project which was recently released as joint effort between the French 🇫🇷 and German 🇩🇪 governments.
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Docs
Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.
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