Also in Berlin today is the event organised with our friends @ela and @andreas from platformcoops.de

**Democratising Tech Means Democratising the Economy**

4. November 2026, 12:30-14:00 · Online

platformcoops.de/events/democr…

#DemocraticTechFund #DemocraticTech #SovereignTech #SSE #SocialEconomy

Very excited about the launch of #DemocraticTechFund !

Let's go! DTF. I am Down To Fund!

Democratic Tech Fund

2026-10-28 10:01:44

Hello world, hello Fediverse! We’re opening up our own presence here. We are the Democratic Tech Fund. We build and fund contra-infrastructure: tools, learning and mobilisation for communities that refuse to rent their digital lives from Big Tech. We’re a bottom-up organised federation. Join us.

In-depth article by Linux Magazine on the Fediverse with interviews with Ivan and Mayel from @Bonfire and @cwebber

A good read to share

- About the Open Science Network, the archipielago set-up and the Jacobin.de case (all Bonfire)

- About the ActivityPub standard with federation between servers and client-server with the apps

- About living systems that are brought in by sensor networks about which the neighbours can have conversations.

- About solidarity networks. Such as @coopcloud – a community first and a set of
deployment tools and recipes second - of which Bonfire and also the #DemocraticTechFund are members

- Also about how #VentureCapital money typically results in shiny but extractive businesses that turn into an #enshittification process to return maximum profit to shareholders. Instead we can have networks of community centred ventures and cooperative platforms, such as @SocialCoop. And public funding channeled through e.g. @nlnet

nlnet.nl/media/Digital-Autonom…

Announcement:

DTF Masterclass on crowdfunding the commons with Olivier Schulbaum from @platoniq

When: Wednesday 14th October
Time: 13h CET
Access: for DTF members

For everyone interested to learn from the best commons oriented crowdfunders: we’ll run a masterclass with Goteo.org’s Olivier Schulbaum.

With their platform they helped mobilise over 25 million euro to fund thousands of projects.

This session is free for DTF members and potential project leads. In case you’re not yet a member of DTF, make sure to sign up with the 3-step JOIN process. Membership levels start free of charge for open community membership.
democratictech.fund/join/

#DTF #DemocraticTechFund