📓 implicit-feudalism.md by @neil

implicit feudalism

a bias, both cultural and technical, for generating absolutist fiefdoms.

[[Online Communities Are Still Catching Up to My Mother’s Garden Club]]

Implicit feudalism is how platforms nudge users to practice (and tolerate) nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.”

[[Online Communities Are Still Catching Up to My Mother’s Garden Club]]

[[Feudalism]].

Bookmarks

Admins, Mods, and Benevolent Dictators for Life: The Implicit Feudalism of Online Communities