What if we optimised technology for people instead of advertisers and investors?

Huge shoutout to @jpm-nz.bsky.social for implementing our first human centred adaptive algorithm (or AI✨)

As you use speakeasy it will adjust the timing of this pause in the scroll, optimising for *less* time on site

Sistema Unimed (Brazil)
Brazil’s healthcare hero 🇧🇷 Unimed is the largest medical cooperative globally, serving 18M patients with 114K doctors. A model of physician-owned care! #HealthcareCoop #Unimed

The Co-operative Bank (New Zealand)
NZ’s Co-operative Bank is owned by its customers and has redistributed $22.5M in profits since 2013. If we can make banking ethical, there’s nothing coops can’t do! #CooperativeBanking #NZ

Buurtzorg (Netherlands)
🩺 Buurtzorg’s nurse-led teams provide holistic care while saving 40% in costs for the Dutch system. With 15,000 nurses worldwide, it’s shining example of self-management made it a case study in the book Reinventing Organisations. #Healthcare #Coops

Mondragon Corporation (Spain)
No list of cooperatives would be complete without Mondragon. A federation of worker co-ops in Spain, they employ over 70,000 people globally!

Founded in 1956, it spans industries from retail to finance. #Coops #Mondragon

We're starting small, but meaningful:
🔒 Private messages for trusted contacts (not everything can or should be public)
🎯 Set your intention & skip the distractions when you just want to post or chat
⏸️ Non-infinite scroll (yeah, we don’t measure our success by how long you spend doom-scrolling)

Hey Bluesky folks! We're Speakeasy. Cooperatively owned, no billionaire wannabes. We're building social media that works for us, not advertisers.

Intrigued? Skeptical? We get it. Check us out: about.spkeasy.social