Visions of a New Internet

Platforms like YouTube, Patreon, Spotify, Instagram (Meta), TikTok, and more are only becoming more centralized, more intrusive, more greedy, and more exploitative.

They don’t respect our privacy, they’re treated like competitive marketplaces instead of tools for human connection and communication, and the people who make them run are largely inaccessible.

To top it all off, we don’t control them at all, despite being the reason they exist...

That's why 400,000,000's cooperative design and development agency 400M: D+D is building cooperative, decentralized, and open-source alternatives that synthesize the best features of all these platforms, and that we can (democratically) control together too (with no crypto schemes or gimmicks either).

It's time for us humans to have an exodus to a Digital Zion that we’ve built ourselves – somewhere where all of us can actually have a say over the technology that we’re using to communicate with each other.

Imagine a new social media ecosystem designed around cooperation. Controlled and maintained by all willing to get invested, and in a radically democratic way. Not just one platform controlled by the people for the commons (like Resonate, for example), but many platforms, all reinforcing each other.

We are beginning with a video-streaming platform called Spex that has 1) Patreon features baked into it, 2) a more decentralized architecture, and 3) a more modular system for connection and curation.

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DONATE, dive into our CODE, or reach out directly, and we'll keep you in the loop.

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Just because these dystopian systems are eating themselves alive doesn’t mean they have to take us with them.

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