#wip [[2024-06-24]] Nathan Schneider https://theconversation.com/why-the-future-of-democracy-could-depend-on-your-group-chats-229597 https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181/ Alexis de Tocqueville, W. E. B. du Bois Homesteading -> The WELL The genesis of all politics in everyday politics Implicit feudalism of the sysadmin / social network owner e.g. Trump’s Truth Social Politics -> platform power Transformative justice and blockchain communities overlap in their desire to depend less on state monopoly violence as the root of coordination Serious exploration of online democracy is only possible after blockchains because before that true power lies with whoever runs the servers Involved with MetaGov Community Rule: drag-&-drop bylaws https://modpol.net Citizenship founded on something other than monopoly on land or violence Non-exclusive sovereignties https://native-land.ca Having the capacity to build associations catch up to, or leapfrog, the capacity to aggregate capital [Political skills](https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/republic.html) - Philip Agre Democracy is never done Managing the “local attention economy” in an online community We’re relying on designs for attention economies that are 200 years old