Editing Family Road Trips and Feudal Crowdsourcing
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Feudal crowdsourcing divides Internet users into kings, lords, knights, and serfs. The king-lord and knight-serf relationships are marked by an absence of responsibility on those who wield power and an absence of support from those who are subject to it. The lord-knight relationship functions, but does not benefit serfs. Serfs accept feudal crowdsourcing because of a lack of alternatives with its genuine merits. Eliminating kings removes one dysfunctional relationship but retains all the others. | Feudal crowdsourcing divides Internet users into kings, lords, knights, and serfs. The king-lord and knight-serf relationships are marked by an absence of responsibility on those who wield power and an absence of support from those who are subject to it. The lord-knight relationship functions, but does not benefit serfs. Serfs accept feudal crowdsourcing because of a lack of alternatives with its genuine merits. Eliminating kings removes one dysfunctional relationship but retains all the others. | ||
Feudal crowdsourcing is so ubiquitous and the question of an alternative to it so intractable that we must work within it to improve it. But it is clear that if nothing is done about it the station wagon of the Internet will continue to hurtle along on the road to doom<ref>In some sense this essay was "dead on arrival". Twitter, for example, has no lords; it is moderated by direct rule from its king and his army of knights: not feudal crowdsourcing, but absolute monarchy. His recent actions and statements have caused much dissatisfaction from sections of the Twitter userbase, who are moving to Mastodon, a federated system with no kings. | Feudal crowdsourcing is so ubiquitous and the question of an alternative to it so intractable that we must work within it to improve it. But it is clear that if nothing is done about it the station wagon of the Internet will continue to hurtle along on the road to doom<ref>In some sense this essay was "dead on arrival". Twitter, for example, has no lords; it is moderated by direct rule from its king and his army of knights: not feudal crowdsourcing, but absolute monarchy. His recent actions and statements have caused much dissatisfaction from sections of the Twitter userbase, who are moving to Mastodon, a federated system with no kings. The choice has never been more stark: absolute monarchy or federal freedom?</ref> |