rglullis

Can you make a list of coops that provide service to its members and is overall cheaper than the equivalent commercial offerings?

It need to be people owned.

Sounds good on paper, but the practical implementations make them not any different than any other small service provider. cosocial.ca is a Canadian co-op for Mastodon. To become a member, you must pay CA$50 per year. What kind of "ownership" does that give to you as member? Nothing, really. You can not take control of the domain or the server.

At best, you'll get some bureaucratic oversight and the "right" to make proposals regarding changes in governance: "use the money to upgrade the server or to pay the admin", "Allow some members to get free access because they are facing some hardship, yes or no?" etc.

But at the end of the day, is any of that "ownership" making you (or the other members) better off compared to a service like mastodon.green, which simply charges $1/month and gives you an account?

How would that work? How would an admin separate downvotes from brigaders and legitimate users who happen to downvote a comment?

That creates an incentive for trolls to create accounts at the popular instances using this mechanism in order to destroy their reputation.

How long until it gets abused, and trolls start brigading though instances that hide their votes?

Lies, damn lies, and graphs that don't have the Y-axis starting at 0.

10% growth in a day is nice, but far from a revolution. Let's see this trend going for a month.

Take it easy. Reddit has more than 400 millions users, Lemmy hasn't even broken into 70k MAU. The long tail is not yet that long here.

If we want to get rid of the walled gardens, we need to have patience and cultivate our own. Join the communities you care about and stick with a discipline of posting one or two posts every day, no matter the source. Even if you have to browse the equivalent subreddit, get the link, send a DM to the original author about it to let them know they can post on Lemmy as well.

People are not going to jump over night to here, but slowly we can win this one out.