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+https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181/
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+# Introduction: democracy in the wild
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+* Online communities are different to in-person communities.
+* Online politics in the small reflect in the large.
+* Online communities must explicitly be democratic, self-governance instead of top-down authority => governable spaces.
+* Democratic erosion in the world is influenced by online communities.
+* Users of online communities perceive arbitrary rule enforcement, unaccountability.
+* Online movements have not resulted in lasting gains.
+* The design of online spaces has atrophied everyday democracy skills.
+* Garden club from 1960 with eight pages of bylaws => more successful than most only communities that will not live as long.
+* Fervent US enthusiasm for forming associations observed by Alexis de Tocqueville in 19th century US.
+* Tocqueville: democracy requires education, democracy in education requires political engagement.
+* Tocqueville: associations can serve the social order.
+* Will bad players behave better if they care about mini-democracies?
+* Online spaces are different, more churn, faster, distributed, diverse.
+* Participating in online spaces correlate to political participation.
+* Author unclear about his disagreement with Tocqueville's conclusions, author is more optimistic.
+* Democratic self-governance is harder in online spaces, but possible.
+* Design to achieve self-governance, refuse corporate control.
+* Technical solutions are not sufficient.
+* People do not believe their governments are democratic.
+* People are more willing to change due to technological progress.
+* Governments use technology as an "unavoidable excuse", but it doesn't have to be this way.
+* Introduction of citizen voice happens even authoritarian governments (!)
+* Crypto ledger structures have new power structures, even though it's often antidemocratic, but presents an opportunity.
+* For many, democracy is something that was created for them before they were born, or something they won't have in their lifetime.
+* Online communities are closer to most than their democracy.
+* Designing online communities offers chance to learn how to shape the larger government.
+* No single design can work for all scenarios.
+* Design should be based on accountability.
+* Democracy on a small scale gives hope that it's possible on a bigger scale.
+* From server control to community control.
+* Implicit feudalism: power derives from founders and admins.
+* "Governable stacks", "modular politics" to learn from.
+* Widespread participation => burdensome, elitist, uninformed governance? Overwhelming to participants.
+* Sometimes governable spaces should be highly participative, in others, use representation.
+* Governance designs sensitive to economy of attention.