Social.coop

In September 2016 Nathan Schneider published an op-ed in the Guardian Here's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it suggesting that Twitter take itself off of the stock market and become a democratic user owned cooperative. On May 22, 2017 it was voted on at the Twitter Annual Meeting, but received 4.9% of the vote.

On April 24, 2018 Enric Duran working with Schneider, Matthew Cropp and Mayel de Borniol registered the social.coop domain on behalf of FairCoop using the registrar Gandi. FairCoop was an attempt to create a global financial system for cooperatives with the help of FairCoin, a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency. FairCoop ceased to exist in 2022, and Platform6 took over as fiscal sponsor for SocialCoop. For several years SocialCoop struggled to renew the DNS registration each year since Duran was no longer active in SocialCoop.

In March 2024 after sustained effort bu multiple members of SocialCoop the registration was successfully transferred to Innovation Cooperative Limited (previously Platform6), who are the fiscal sponsors for SocialCoop.