I think a lot of people don’t know what co-ops are. I have been pretty left leaning my whole life and I only found out co-ops in my late 20s and the majority of people I talked to in real life have no idea what coops are. And from that few that do know, many dont know how big cooperatives can be.

For the uninitiated, I am sharing the [International Cooperative Alliances definition of coops here: https://ica.coop/en/cooperatives/what-is-a-cooperative

and the list of largest coops in 2023 here: https://ica.coop/en/media/library/research-and-reviews-world-cooperative-monitor/world-cooperative-monitor-2023

Screenshot of the top 10 coops based on turnover in USD from the report here:

Mostly on Lemmy. I’m on Mastadon too. I don’t know if YouTube counts but I’m on there as well and is the only corporate social media I use consistently.

I find myself using Instagram more but only following a handful of creators, I don’t post or check on my feed. I deleted my Twitter and LinkedIn but can’t get myself to delete my Meta accounts because of the people that I have contact with on there. I hardly contact ppl but the sentimentally of the connections is something

I hadn’t consider that. I wonder if there is a way around this. Thanks for the answer!

I never knew. Thanks for answering!

I found this video explaining the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0zHU4E1XaE&t=123s

I would love to hear any Estonians experience here actually using it

Just came to say you’re a coward and an idiot. If you want change, run for elections or lead a direct action movement instead of insulting people actually trying. What bad logic are using to insult the person who ran and lost instead of the person who won and who is threatening to make everyone’s lives worse? again coward and an idiot

Thanks, I will export and import my profile. Hopefully things will be smoother in the future, but being able to export the some of the profile is better than nothing

Thanks for answering. I will do this

Thanks! Will do this

Thanks. I wonder why this is a low priority. If the people attracted t the fediverse want decentralization and interoperability, it would make sense that many people would want to migrate from one instance to another as easily and smoothly as possible.

Thanks again for the detailed answer

Noooo!!! I just saw this and it’s 30 mins past midnight. I let down Earth, Wind and Fire

I misread the title and thought it said 9.4% of its energy from renewables not just solar. Way to go Chile!

https://www.politico.eu/article/anne-hildago-paris-mayor-olympics-opening-ceremony-critics/

I was sure this was fake until I saw some of the comments and looked it up. This is amazing!

Thanks so much for sharing and taking the time to break it down for the layperson!

This is the first time I’m hearing of e waste mining, do you recommend doing it at a small scale? and if so, do you need any special material for the set up?

Thanks for your answer. You’re right, I was hoping to get more answers on the bigger picture change that would happen to society. Particularly since coops and credit unions are more democratic in nature, I wonder how different society would be with more direct control of how they money is managed.

Thanks for your answer!

Thanks for the answer!

You mentioned paying for everything via card or mobile. Does that mean credit unions offer no options to withdraw cash?

Also can banks permanently limit withdrawals or transfers?

Thanks for the answer and for suggesting the documentary!(excited to have my head hurt even more after watching it😂)

Thanks for the answer. I’m confident you’re correct but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around drawing a line with an irrational length. If we did draw a right angled triangle with two sides equal to 1cm and we measured the hypotenuse physically with a ruler, how would we measure a never ending number? How would we able to keep measuring as the numbers after the decimal point keep going forever but the physical line itself is finite?

This is a really interesting idea. Are there any case studies where this has been tried?