⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
There are many projects that have created protocols for decentralizing discourse, including ActivityPub and SSB for social, Matrix and IRC for chat, and RSS for blogging. While each of these are successful in their own right, none of them fully met the goals we had for a network that enables global long-term public conversations at scale.
Jay Graber • A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
I will argue that the constraints on governance in online spaces have contributed to the peril of democratic politics in general. It is not enough to merely defend existing governmental institutions; healthy democracy depends on enabling creative new forms of self-governance, especially on networks.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Democratic innovations that are currently taking shape slowly and hesitantly – like liquid democracy (which equips people to allocate their voice to those they trust on an issue-by-issue basis, rather than the relatively blunt nature of electoral representation) or quadratic voting (which enables the quick and simple aggregation of the preferences
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