# Community Computing: The Future We Deserve?

**URL:** <https://taggartinstitute.org/t/community-computing-the-future-we-deserve/738>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** taggarts-blog\
**Created:** [July 1, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://taggartinstitute.org/t/community-computing-the-future-we-deserve/738 "2026-07-01T12:53:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![mttaggart](https://taggartinstitute.org/user_avatar/taggartinstitute.org/mttaggart/32/10_2.png) [@mttaggart](https://taggartinstitute.org/u/mttaggart)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://taggartinstitute.org/t/community-computing-the-future-we-deserve/738/1 "2026-07-01T12:53:56Z")

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In which I discuss the benefits/drawbacks of offering computing services for a community as an alternative to big tech.

> **[Community Computing: The Future We Deserve?](https://taggart-tech.com/coop/)**
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> Tech companies keep making us embarrassed to be their customers. Maybe we don't have to live like that.

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**Author:** ![maynard](https://taggartinstitute.org/user_avatar/taggartinstitute.org/maynard/32/434_2.png) [@maynard](https://taggartinstitute.org/u/maynard)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://taggartinstitute.org/t/community-computing-the-future-we-deserve/738/2 "2026-07-02T12:57:19Z")

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Yes, cooperatives are loaded with positives. Thinking back over some of them, and other individual initiatives in software, hardware, internet sites, net services, etc., … once Capital gets an eye on it, it has the power to either turn it to shit or to just make it disappear. Even the best of in-person authentication can be foiled once they kidnap your children.

And Capital is super-paranoid; it can conceive a threat from anything, and believe the threat to become real. [just like I’m doing now?]

So, yes, it’s a beautiful life in obscurity. Maybe that’s why rats and cockroaches, viruses and who-knows-what-else have managed to survive for so long.

The good news is that the creative energy of the universe is just that … creative and giving of itself for each other and the common good.

There was a collective enterprise of organizers and movement people around the WTO protests in Seattle 1999 … secure email, websites, email lists.