Notes

I’ve witnessed and been a part of a variety of digital communities but have no sociological framework to see how and why some work better than others
There are increasingly now paid roles in digital community building, moderation, support, etc
so there must be a developing ‘best practice’ etc
Incredibly subjectively, neocities feels like how tumblr used to feel (in early to mid 2010s)
I’ve seen people describe TikTok like early YouTube
wikipedia, wikihow, open source
open and closed discords, discord for tech
streaming communities
tiktok niches
comments

graphic, violent and disturbing inherently as humans vs politically incendiary and culture-specific? is there anything objectively graphic?
who does and who should be holding any authority over content moderation
‘community guidelines’ in eg forums and discords that are legitimately community-informed and community-managed vs corporate ‘community guidelines’ set by one authority
policies backlash eg Instagram nipple policy
public safety, safeguarding, what we owe to each other, online exploitation and consent
how comments sections on some forums can be more strictly controlled for integrity of useful educational eg coding, stack overflow, ‘this doesn’t answer the question’ sort of thing
upvoting, downvoting, distributed mechanisms for approval
who is the comments section for?

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internet users en masse being siloed by unnecessarily proprietary platforms and non-interoperable data formats
freedom of movement in ‘fediverse’ and similar ecosystems
internet platforms as compared to physically isolated locations
boundaries, entrance, mediated communications
affiliations, groupings, territory
metaphors for these spaces

Mentions

“Since the introduction of timeline, one might see Facebook as a passport to participating in the most prevalent form of capturing, mediating, and archiving personal life accounts.”
- “Facebook locks the subject into a specific techno-economic regime of navigation through mediated memories. There is a contract and transaction written into every passport. In return for the right to freely cross borders, the authority has right to control this mobility, while acquiring insight into the subject’s personal information.” -> ⤴️

how does federation work and is/when is/isn’t it desirable/viable/feasible
‘re-decentralisation’ referring to a return to the ‘original ’ intentions of the web
federated tech, self-hosting and alternative webs
culture issues in alternative webs, migration from big tech silos