Ditching GAFAM
Oli SB
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What would it take for us to get away from the 'death star platforms' of GAFAM and grow a cooperative commons infrastructure...?
Billy Smith Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:46PM
These are the basic tools that i use when collaborating with other people in an online environment. FOr a new system to be viable, it needs to, at least, match the features that are currently available. :D
[email protected] Mon 28 Jun 2021 12:20PM
I already have cooperative cloud accounts at CommonsCloud.coop, and with my FairPhone3+ from e.foundation I got an email + NextCloud service included that covers most of the above. But I do think there's much space to market these services under cooperative-commons governance models :-)
Diana Finch Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:46PM
These are all the functionalities I currently rely on.
Oli SB Mon 28 Jun 2021 4:00PM
which options do u mean? Not sure it's easy / possible to recast Qs after the voting has begun... but if u mean the 14 in the first Q (Which of the following reasons is most likely to convince you to move away from Gmail etc? The alternative service should:) the idea is simply to rank these, so we can determine which are the key aspects of the proposition to raise up in our marketing ;)
spirit Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:46PM
Clearly, if the tools created are better than the tools I currently use, I would use any and all of them. But if they are not, I most likely will not adopt until they are, perhaps giving willing to give slightly more sway to open source tools even if the functionality isn't quite as good.
spirit Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:41PM
| 10 - Never sell your data to anyone else | ||
| 11 - Be powered by open source software | ||
| 12 - Never expose you to advertising | ||
| 13 - Use any profit to help grow the commons | ||
| 14 - Be available on all devices | ||
| 15 - Be governed as a co-operative | ||
| 16 - Be powered by renewable energy | ||
| 17 - Provide a suite comprising calendar plus office tools | ||
| 18 - Provide collaborative tools such as mind-mapping, whiteboard, etc. | ||
| 19 - Be expandable - so you can upgrade your storage | ||
| 20 - Be easy to set up on your phone and computer | ||
| 21 - Allow you to cancel, and export your data, at any time | ||
| 22 - Have great product support | ||
| 23 - Have an uptime guarantee |
Loomio is somewhat flawed in that they force you to rank certain items over others even if you feel they are similarly weighted. Nevertheless, I tried my best to workaround this flaw.
Grace (Rebecca Rachmany) Tue 29 Jun 2021 5:19AM
I use more than that now.
Oli SB · Mon 28 Jun 2021 3:54PM
Thanks Bob - that's the whole point of this new service. Not everyone knows how or has the time to set up their own email, cloud storage and collaborative tools. This services aims to take all the hassle away :)