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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.