"We believe it is time to consider not just how online spaces can be governed efficiently and in service to corporate bottom lines, but how they can be governed fairly and legitimately."

[…]why should a few companies — or a few billionaire owners — have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days of the social internet, decisions about the spaces people gathered in online were often made by members of the community. Our examination of the early history of online governance suggests that social media platforms could return — at least in part — to models of community governance in order to address their crisis of legitimacy.

  • sqgl@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Am concerned that you see hexbear this way. I recently joined there precisely for the community reasons we all value in this thread and which Hexbear claims are it’s treason for existing.

    Can you please give me details? If not here then in private. I am considering migrating a Facebook activist group to Hexbear (thousand people).

    Edit: hang on, this is a HexBear post your commenting on. Am confused.