#implicitfeudalism — Public Fediverse posts

@ntnsndr The #WikimediansForSoftwareFreedom group [1] is currently having a debate about whether there's a better (or in fact any other author(s)') article on #ImplicitFeudalism than your 2021 "Admins, Mods, ..." peer-reviewed essay [2]. There are some post-publication comments that you may find useful for future work [3].

Do you know of other papers presenting the online-community implicit feudalism thesis?

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_software_freedom

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140084111

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedians_for_software_freedom/Governance#Why_we_need_this_page_%28feudalism_essay%29

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Key hypothesis more or less stated at today's #Decidim Association #bbb meeting [1]:

Hypothesis: Much of the power of the #TrumpMuskRegime + recently elected neo-fascist parties comes from #ImplicitFeudalism in online governance [2], related to the #TyrannyOfStructurelessness [3][4]. Exceptions in #FOSS are #Debian + #Wikipedia [2].

"I believe that #implicitFeudalism is becoming a template for #politics more broadly. #AdminPower is political power, and the 2 are blending in the public imagination.
#Trump came to power not by holding office but as a viral #influencer; after leaving the presidency, his consolation was to start his own #socialmedia, #TruthSocial. Controlling his own server…lends him the status of a platform owner."
https://theconversation.com/why-the-future-of-democracy-could-depend-on-your-group-chats-229597

“#NathanSchneider has the patience and fortitude most of us lack. He’s identified a phenomenon he calls “#ImplicitFeudalism’ - the bias to build our online and real #communities as #fiefdoms, and how this has made us more tolerant of similarly autocratic CEOs and politicians. He’s even optimistic and energetic enough to see how the blockchain could be employed to distribute #governance in a more democratic fashion.”

- @Rushkoff on @ntnsndr

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rushkoff_nathan-schneider-team-human-activity-7175559675608760320-AcoW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

@ntnsndr Finished reading Governable Spaces yesterday on a flight and it's really gotten me thinking about how I can contribute to making a more democratic Internet :)

#GovernableSpaces #HomeSpace #DigitalDemocracy #ImplicitFeudalism #DigitalColonialism

While Mastodon is great, it is still subject to the same implicit feudalism mechanisms as other social media (unless you're on a server such as social.coop which builds consensus decision-making into their structure).

#DigitalDemocracy #ImplicitFeudalism #GovernableSpaces