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There is a related concept, “platform cooperativism” which puts forth a vision for worker owned online platforms like an Uber owned by its drivers rather than an extractive intermediary (see Drivers Cooperative).
Another flavor of this concept is a DisCO or Distributed Cooperative Organizations (examples here)
This is an accessible approach to people working together to create value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics. These values are nourished in small, federated communities. DisCOs harness the utility of tech without being completely tech-centric, emphasizing mutual trust and the need to have not only reliable but also enjoyable collaborative relationships. Distributed Ledger/ Blockchain technologies are only put to use when these values and their resulting human relationships have become strongly rooted.
One of the risks that is especially acute with crypto based communities is how are economic and governance rights established. Blindly relying on tokens financializes transactions and creates risk that users with more capital can dominate a network. We want a model where farmers who contribute content to the network are able to maintain their agency and providers of financial capital or developers cannot hijack the agenda at the detriment of farmers.
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