 I want to introduce the term "Territory" to cyberspace. A Territory is a subset of cyberspace that is governed by the same entity. E.g. when I visit a website, I enter the Territory that the website belongs to, necessarily subjecting myself to the governance in effect in that Territory. That may include TOS, content moderation policy, required payments and fees (e.g. app store cuts) etc This makes it easy to talk about "the rules", because it's just like crossing borders in the physical world. 9 comments
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite You are correct that most Mastodon instances are Territories, in my terminology, that are governed as autocracies. social.coop, the Territory where I write this, as well as fairly new cosocial.ca, are cooperatives with democratic governance. (That's the reason I'm here.)
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite I'm just a citizen of social.coop, that's all. As I said, I know of social.coop and cosocial.ca as general-purpose democratic coops running Mastodon instances, but no others. @failedLyndonLaRouchite Actually, I need to use my own terminology better! I should have said "social.coop, where I write this, as well as fairly new cosocial.ca, are independent Territories self-governed as democracies with their users being the constituents entitled to vote." @steveediger indeed administrator-initiated #fediblock is very much like a trade sanction by one state against another.  |
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So Facebook and Instagram are built on Meta Territory, and that's largely a Zuck autocracy. Twitter is now a private fief Territory of Elon.
While social.coop, from whose Territory I write this, is a democracy.