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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].
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Governance concept for online communities [5]:
- exit (e.g. #HelloQuitX or fork a FOSS project)
vs
- #AffectiveVoice - consultation in #DecisionMaking
vs
- #EffectiveVoice - participation in #DecisionMaking
Corollary: providing the conceptual tools and empirical evidence about how online governance can evolve away from implicit feudalism and towards effective voice could have *huge* local and global sociopolitical benefits. Cyberspace has real sociopolitical power in the 2020s.
3/3 Some very good tools include [6][7][8][9][10].
[1] https://meta.decidim.org/processes/internal-regulation-process/f/1969/meetings/2049
[2] https://nathanschneider.info/ImplicitFeudalism -> https://osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/sf432_v1
[3] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
[4] https://nathanschneider.info/tyranny -> redirect -> https://osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/ecfpj_v1
[5] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12470
[6] https://communityrule.info
[7] https://www.contributor-covenant.org
[8] https://codeberg.org/mergiraf/mergiraf/src/branch/main/GOVERNANCE.md
Refs [2] and [4] on https://osf.io are currently giving errors and don't seem to be archived on Wayback. Paywalled officially peer-reviewed versions:
[2] doi:10.1177/1461444820986553 -> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820986553
[4] doi:10.1080/14680777.2021.1890183 -> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2021.1890183
*Update*: osf.io is back up :).
Archived pdfs:
[2]-archive https://web.archive.org/web/20250304222810/https://files.osf.io/v1/resources/sf432_v1/providers/osfstorage/5ff89882e80d370172a5785a?action=download&direct&version=7