I formed a worker co-op - but it's just me! And I do CAD reverse engineering, nothing really life-giving.
I would love to join a co-op producing real human survival values in an open source way. Where would you suggest that I look for leads on that kind of organization?
While DDG, Brave, Kagi etc are working generously to replace Google search. The other areas that I think get less attention and needs to be targeted to successfully dismantle them and their predatory practices are Google maps and Google docs.
Maps are hard because it requires a lot of resources and money and whatever but replacing docs should be relatively easier.
FWIW, Kagi is built on top of Google search, so yes it's "replacing" (for you and me) a dependence on Google search, but it is categorically not a from-the-ground-up replacement for Google search.
Not sure it'll work. I think half the advantage comes from the integration across all these tools (maps, search, etc). Have you ever tried to use duckduckgo? It surprised me what I take for granted in Google's user experience.
I wholeheatedly agree with you. The GMaps experience is vastly superior. Additionally, when I'm referring to Gmaps, I think one of the critical features that I would love to replace with Open Source is Places. With due respect, I find both Google and Yelp a*holes in this area. While OpenStreetMap is really good for mapping, I'm still looking to find(or create) somethign that can supplement OSM with Places/Business data.
I would love to join a co-op producing real human survival values in an open source way. Where would you suggest that I look for leads on that kind of organization?