Post #1601626
2026-03-19 23:40 UTC
This is grad-school thesis level thinking on our social web interactivity, so it's not a quick read, but it's also quite readable (unlike a lot of grad-school thesis level writing). Worth having a tea and a read-through.
"The purpose of a protocol is what it does, and what the current generation of open protocols has produced is a commons without a governance framework adequate to the commons’ own complexity."
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@proprietor@wandering.shop 2026-03-19 23:44
There's a subtext here, to my eye, though I'm pointing it out while admitting I have a motivated bias to do so: Moderation in our social networks is kinda frickin' tough and often thankless. In our distributed social networks, we do some bits better, but some bits worse. One of the "worse" is, *nobody can get it "right" *. Because there is no "right". The very nature of the protocol stacks abdicates governance to whomever wants to step up to it. Or whomever has the resources to do it.