The platform cooperativism-model has been increasingly put forth in recent years as a possible “silver bullet” against the various negative excesses of platform capitalism. But how can democratically-structured platforms grow despite scarce resources? What support structures do they require? And what does all of this have to do with sustainability?

With the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU has made a first attempt to impose obligations on "gate keeper" platforms and to enable fairer competition. The big change, however, did not happen. This is why we want to discuss: What policies do we need to break market power and thus create the conditions to realize the sustainability potential of digitization?