Actually, finding people who want to work on that sort of thing online is not hard. Worker cooperatives have better pay, better likelihood of success, and come with a cleaner conscience. People want that. Making it work legally is difficult: it's difficult enough to manage books and build a business within capitalist legal structures while maintining consensus-based organizing without having that be across many national jurisdictions.

Why not work a regular job doing menial labor? The pay is shit? OK, fight for it to be better alongside your comrades. Isn't that what the labor movement is all about? Idk, easy for me to say in a place with high minimum wage

I know there's some mostly anarchist tech coops in my country but even they are competing in a capitalist society. It's still important to have these, kind of as a preparation for better times, but the economic framework surrounding them still sucks.

I think autonomic is kind of international, maybe getting in touch helps you, I think they have a matrix channel as well.

When we are recruiting for increased worker membership we will make a post on our blog. If you are interested in joining Autonomic but we are not currently recruiting, you are still welcome to send us your CV at boop@autonomic.zone.

https://autonomic.zone/about/

All that said, I've joined these guys recently https://patio.coop/ - you might find some team that's aligned with you.

Things are not exactly hot there, but it's the best lead I have right now. And sure upon joining, I immediately typed "anarch" in search window in their team chat and yeah, there is one political channel with very clearly defined topic.

After running mine for a long time I find the concept too formal of an organization - the best approach IMO would be to hold really tiny 1-5 person teams as cooperatives and share franchise/brand/reputation/network effects. Binding people to one group, pretty much exclusively, limits possibilities a lot - and redistributes responsibilities in a way that might be harmful and demotivating for less active members.

Ideally, every wizard should have a tower and a village, then they join their strengths as needed, submitting to none.

It's not Estonia, it's the world. I've been running one of these in Finland for 5 years (yeah, with our burn rate), but things just degrade - can't land any jobs now, it seems EU is funneling cash into the wars and all the capitalist thieves benefiting from it (I tried getting into supply chain, after all, there seem to be clear good guys and bad guys - but good guys are behind thieving government wall, so they just can't pay), and US is just jerking off to their king. Trade is dead and something is about to happen, but my cooperative degraded into 2 people now, and maybe some who would return if I can feed everyone when something happens.

I've been doing lots of tech jobs for crypto people, as long as they keep doing liberal things, we kind of align. But they divided between those who can barely pay anything and those who lost last shreds of ethical behavior. Either way, I'm kind of known person in those circles and that does not help.

I tried to find some activists who might be willing to commission some work (as I said, I did some military things, sure there would be socialist liberals who need hardware and have some resources to help me stay afloat and build things), but no luck so far.

So it's some global issue. I'm trying to ground now, get in touch with local community and build something out of it, more gift economy kind of vibe and screw them money if capitalists want to just rob us all. But really I'm as lost as you are, no matter how world class professional I am at what I do. Still, we need to hold onto our connections. My contact is in user profile.

but how do you do that in an environment where those ideas aren’t widespread?

You don't.

You are trying to escape the capitalist mode of production... but, unfortunately, there is nowhere for you to escape to.

Some people do, of course, get to live an "activist lifestyle" - but those are people who have the necessary privilege to do so. Something tells me you don't have it - if you did, there'd be no need for you to ask on here, would there?

Would it be possible to become apprenticed in a trade, like an electrician, then when you are a journeyman, create your own electrician cooperative? I don't know if there is much of a market in Estonia for solar, but a coop that installs solar or wind power sounds pretty anarchist (or solarpunk) to me :)