Few, if any, of this moment’s apparently unstoppable tech platforms will survive for long. The people on them will eventually leave—when they’re forced to do so by the continuous degradation of their experience, or because they’re forced to do so because their governments put the hammer down, as Brazil recently demonstrated—or sometimes when they... See more

platforms should provide:

1. Social provenance transparency : Label which communities are engaging with content. For instance, a viral post could display whether it resonates across diverse groups ( shared ground ) or primarily within a specific niche ( different perspectives ).


2. Community-driven curation : Empower communities to promote content they

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Platform socialism is a systematic alternative to private power in the digital sphere and can help unite different forms of struggle around a shared vision of a democratic future. It is about reclaiming a long-term counter-hegemonic project for challenging capitalist control over technology.