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Online Communities Are Still Catching Up to My Mother's Garden Club, says Nathan Schneider. Schneider: The Internet has been plagued by a phenomenon called “implicit feudalism” He says platforms nudge users to practice (and tolerate) nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life” Schneider: Where traces of online democracy do exist, like Wikipedia or the Debian operating system, it has emerged through extensive planning and custom software. The default is feudalism, he says.via the TL;DR App
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Written by ntnsndr | Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
