This study offers insights into the politics of community infrastructure through the lens of a case study of a 'creole' (Edgerton 2007) hybrid online and analogic community of ride-hailing platform drivers in Bogotá, Colombia. The emergence of alternative governance models and autonomous subversive microspheres in Latin American cities reflects the state's ineffectiveness and capture by elites in that context. Still, it can also describe other locations of the global south and even the so-called 'West' or 'North'. This study, therefore, explores how a community of ride-hailing drivers has developed a self-governing microsphere of autonomy that evades both government institutions, regulations, and persecution but also corporate exploitation, aided by their informal association through Facebook and WhatsApp groups and push-to-talk platforms. This community infrastructure has supported their internal organisation, growth, and service provision and increased their community and individual welfare. The case study provides valuable insights into how community infrastructure can support grassroots organising, generate spatially equal access to resources and opportunities, and facilitate feelings of belonging, whereas their participants are excluded in other scenarios. Moreover, this study informs how these community-based processes can be studied in contexts beyond the global south, particularly in immigrant and disadvantaged communities in western countries, including Australia. The study also highlights the need for policymakers to recognise and learn from alternative governance models to develop a more cooperative and co-designed vision of a 'partner state,' (Bauwens & Kostakis, 2015; Pazaitis & Drechsler, 2020), particularly at the urban level. The analysis challenges the institutional configurations of cities such as Bogotá and asks whether a micro-constitutional system of self-governing spheres can be leveraged to create a new platform-based 'municipalism' (Thompson 2020, 2021).