Sebastian

“A protocol does not need to encode governance explicitly in order to shape it; it shapes governance by determining which mechanisms are easy to build, which are hard, and which are effectively impossible within the constraints the architecture imposes.”

A good read by @laurenshof on @fediversereport

https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProto #OpenWeb #decentralization #DigitalGovernance #InternetProtocols

The Purpose of Protocols

Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

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Mar 18 at 8:16pmWeb
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RE: https://bonn.social/@Sascha/116251636975235202

Found via @Sascha

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“The question that remains is what forms of power protocols can actually prevent, what forms they merely relocate from one set of actors to another, and what forms they silently generate, (…). An open protocol that does not answer the governance question will still receive an answer, but it will be written by whichever actors make themselves indispensable first.”