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Rules of most groups are, directly or indirectly, decided by the same group. Such as professional associations, your local tabletop gaming group, homeowner asso
by dannyw 9y ago
Rules of most groups are, directly or indirectly, decided by the same group. Such as professional associations, your local tabletop gaming group, homeowner associations, or democracies.
They’re not perfect, but at least there is a chain of input. For Facebook, that group has opposing motivations to this “community” – its lets and requirement is to exploit this resource, ie your cold hard data.
This is not a critique of capitalism – it is an argument that large corporations cannot create communities.
- watwut 9y agoLocal tabletop gaming groups have rules set by store that hosts the meetings. It is not members setting rules, but the place setting rules. Professional association have rules set by few companies with others not having realistic chance to change the rules. In many places, homeowner associations is something you have to be member of, whether you want it or not.
- Lionsion 9y agoIn all those examples of communities, the members have real channels of influence over the rules, they are not merely subject ones handed down by a distant authority. HOAs have boards that members can petition or join, etc.