user owned community
Would a user own community be useful? how would it work? what service could it offer that would benefit the community? Would it limit membership? could it own assets that users shared?
Just brain storming, so feel free to throw your own ideas out. or examples.
I know it abstract, but really feel like this model work if structured right.
At least in the US, there's a well defined legal structure for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
This is actually an interesting concept. What made you think about it?
been thinking about it for a while just never had the word for it.
Yes, a user owned community would be useful. How it would work depends on the purpose you'd have for the community. There would be a number of different services the community could offer to benefit the community:
User testing --> users would get 1st access to new technologies and help shape the product
Belonging --> would find others who also want to sit down and talk about the same things
Scale --> empower local leaders to help manage and grow the community
Owning it's assets users shared would be something you could handle a few ways. What's created in the community and by the community members, are fruits of relationships, hard work, and passion. Not sure what industry you're in, but most communities would like to keep what they produce.
On the other hand, if you're talking about distributing resources and support materials, that's also welcomed as well.
Hope you find some value here @BobSnyder
Check out Mastodon for one example:
https://joinmastodon.org
I haven't done the research, but I am sure there's an ICO somewhere that does exactly this :D
I was thinking out side of crypto. plain boring legal docs or something.
I think it could get complicated if you go this way. At least in the US jurisdiction, from what I could gather in the recent Elon Musk going private case, you can't have more than something like 2000 shareholders in a private company.
So you'd need to go public very quickly, which I think is impossible without a massive capital to back it.
In my opinion your best bet is crypto, or something more traditional (like some sort of author retribution mechanism like Ello) that would do the same in principle.
Forgot all about Ello.
I am assuming they also went the indie way, focusing on building a tightly knit business instead of scaling at all costs.
But I have no specific knowledge of their whereabouts currently.