In 2023, Meta made over $47 billion in net profit.

TikTok's owner Bytedance has been making over $28 billion in net profit.

YouTube makes over $8 billion in advertising revenue per year, accounting for about 10% of Google's total profit.

There's nothing wrong with a company making a profit, especially if its owners are doing otherwise unpaid work or making risky investments to help that company exist and make those profits.

Nonetheless, imagine an alternative to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook & Instagram Reels that distributes 100% of those profits to the creators uploading the videos.

That is what CoSho will be. It will be a creator-owned short-form video platform, in which 100% of the net profits are distributed to the video-makers and influencers who use the platform. 

It will have all the same features, tools, and benefits as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels, but with the added benefit that the creators uploading the videos get paid much more and have a genuine official vote in the leadership and policies.

It will be a massive digital co-op. It will be like a labor union for video-makers and influencers.

In addition to paying much more, CoSho will do way better on the issues that matter most to creators and users, including the following:

• Much better privacy policies. We won't choose the best interests of advertisers and privacy-violating governments over you, because we will be you. You, i.e. the user and content-creator, are also the co-owner and shareholder. We won't choose what benefits the shareholder over you because you are the shareholder.    
• Much better protection against plagiarism to ensure the true original creator of content gets the credit. For instance, we will have much more strictly enforced policies that truly prevent someone from downloading a copy of your video and then watermarking it with their own watermark and re-uploading it under their account to steal your views and pay. If we catch someone stealing your content, we will take the money the videos earned in their own account and give it to you instead of the plagiarizer.
• Much better policies regarding free speech and algorithmic political bias. We won't manipulate our algorithm to benefit a particular government or otherwise create a political bias in what you are shown. We won't help governments censor your free speech. It's not just political bias that affects regular for-profit Big Tech. Those billionaire-owned media giants have other interests and biases that they want to use to manipulate the masses, most notably what is often called a pro-establishment bias. That's their right to do with their own platform, but since our platform is owned by you, not billionaires, we won't tank your content because you say something that billionaires and the establishment don't like.
• Much better control for users over what they see. Similar to the above point, we won't force you to use the algorithm we want you to use. If you don't want to see vulgar or content or don't want to see political content, you can easily change your preferences to filter that content. If you don't want to see content that has been flagged by fact-checkers as allegedly untrue, you can easily filter that all at once with a simple toggle-setting. But if you don't trust fact-checkers, or just like to hear all sides and judge for yourself with your own fact-checking, then you can just set your preferences that way. We won't choose for you and force our choice on you because there really is no "we", at least not in the sense of we versus you. We are you. You are the owner. Your interests are the owner's interests.
• Much more healthy and less addictive content and experience. If the people eating at the restaurant own the restaurant, they are less likely to serve food secretly poisoned with crack cocaine, or ingredients so cheap and dirty they will send you to the hospital. Unlike what Big Tech currently offers, the focus of CoShow will be high-quality positive content that you actually want to see, not addictive low-quality content that harms you and society just to squeeze a few more pennies of profit out of you for the shareholders. In our system, you are the shareholder. You never have to worry about the shareholder's interest being chosen over your own.