Infrastructure should be democratic
When setting up my site and email, I encountered a problem. None of the hosting providers or email providers I could find were democratic. I see (cloud) hosting and email as core infrastructure of the internet, and it bugs me that I can’t influence the decisions of those that I run my most critical stuff on. I don’t trust companies like google or amazon with my private data, and I don’t trust smaller companies to stay in business.
I want a company where the customers are the stakeholders. I want a company where the people using the infrastructure are the ones who make decisions on it. I believe all infrastructure should work this way. Don’t make a profit giving people something they have to use.
Some do exist:
but they seem to require that you are yourself a coop in order to join, and that was not what I wanted.