2026 Member Vote: Community Contributions by Social.coop

As a member of Social.coop you are invited to help shape our 2026 Community Contributions: the cooperatives, non-profits, and charities that support Social.coop and a healthy, growing, and resilient fediverse.

The Organizing Circle proposed and approved a budget of 4,000 GBP (5,400 USD). This year the Finance Working Group (FWG) has curated a list of initial nominees under three strategic themes. Members are invited to nominate additional recipients that fall under one of the three strategic themes.

Propose a Nominee

Members can nominate additional cooperatives, non-profits, and charities — or their associated collectives or projects. To propose a nominee, please reply to this thread with:

• name of the organization or project
• link
• brief description and the strategic theme that best represents the nominee: Build, Protect, Grow

Nominations close in 7 days. Members will then be invited to a dot vote across the final nominees, so that all members can share and collectively weigh their priorities.

Build · Infrastructure

Supporting the open-source software & infrastructure we run on. \
Funding projects whose code keeps social.coop and the wider fediverse running.

• Debian — the universal free operating system our servers run on.
• git.coop — UK worker co-op WebArchitects, host of the GitLab server we use: git.coop
• Keycloak — open-source single sign-on that powers new member login: auth.social.coop
• Loomio — worker co-op supporting our open-source collaborative decision making tool
• Mastodon — the federated social network and the open-source software our instance runs on: social.coop
• Matrix — open standard and network for secure, decentralized, real-time communication, used by Tech Working Group
• MediaWiki — the wiki software (Wikimedia Foundation) behind our documentation home: wiki.social.coop
• PostgreSQL — the open-source database underpinning our Mastodon instance
• Zulip — open-source threaded team chat used for organizing within and accross our working groups

Protect · Rights & Safety

Supporting digital rights & safety across the fediverse. \
Funding the organizations that defend an open internet and provide the trust & safety resources that federated spaces require.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation — US non-profit defending privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation and advocacy
• European Digital Rights — Brussels-based umbrella of 40+ organizations leading digital-rights policy across the EU
• Independent Federated Trust & Safety — US non-profit providing moderation tools, training, and shared trust & safety resources for the whole fediverse
• OpenMedia — Canadian non-profit advancing digital rights — privacy, net neutrality, affordable internet access, and free expression — through community-driven campaigns
• Open Rights Group — UK digital-rights organization protecting privacy and free speech through campaigns and advocacy
• Software Freedom Conservancy — US non-profit that serves as the legal and organizational home for free/open-source projects, defending copyleft and software freedom

Grow · Coop & Federated Movements

Supporting the cooperative & fediverse movement. \
Investing in the movement work that grows democratic alternatives to big tech.

• Bonfire — modular, cooperative-minded federated platform we have been testing as a future option for the co-op
• Co-op Cloud — ethical, community-owned hosting stack built by worker co-op Autonomic, which we have deployed
• Fediverse Security Fund — Nivenly Foundation fund supporting security work across open-source and fediverse projects
• May First — US-based non-profit advancing collective control of technology for local and global movements, offering hosted alternatives to big tech
• PeerTube — French non-profit Framasoft's federated video platform and efforts to build democratic alternatives to big tech