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## What They Needed
In 2017, a group of people were tired of the bargain that social media offered: use our platform for free, and we'll surveil you, manipulate your attention, and sell access to your eyeballs.
In [2017](https://medium.com/open-collective/social-coop-a-cooperative-decentralized-social-network-c10980c9ed91), a group of people were tired of the bargain that social media offered: use our platform for free, and we'll surveil you, manipulate your attention, and sell access to your eyeballs.
They didn't want to quit social media. They wanted to *own* it.
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Social.coop took this further. They structured their Mastodon server as a formal cooperative:
- **Members pay dues** (sliding scale, typically $1-5/month)
- **Members pay dues** ([sliding scale, typically £1-10/month](https://join.social.coop/home.html))
- **Members vote** on how the community is run
- **Members elect** a steering committee
- **Decisions are made** through democratic processes using Loomio (another open source tool)