wearenew_public,
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Why is the default for digital communities a system where community members have no power, representation, or agency?

This “implicit feudalism” isn’t great for moderators either — they’re just vassals of the platform CEOs.

Read an excerpt of media theorist @ntnsndr's new book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life.

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/the-internet-was-supposed-to-be-democratic

ken,
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@wearenew_public @ntnsndr because it became a monopoly - before fedi defeated that monopoly

ntnsndr,
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@ken @wearenew_public Or working on it, at least

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