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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
