Opinion by Bina Venkataraman:
Last year, bipartisan bills targeting the downsides of digital platforms emerged in both chambers of Congress. Though there’s still no consensus aboutWhere all this momentum leads is anyone’s guess. But there’s no going back to a world before Facebook, however pretty it might look in the foggy rearview mirror. What we should hope for instead is a new era of social media — one that serves the best interests of society instead of exploiting its worst impulses.
Divya Siddarth, the co-founder of a new effort to create more community control of emerging technologies called the Collective Intelligence Project, says it’s becoming easier to choose what kind of online communities we want. Technology models such as federated networks, which underlie Mastodon,, allow people to choose from a range of options for privacy, transparency of identity and social norms in smaller communities linked to a common hub.
That experimentation has yet to yield vibrant and enticing alternatives to the cities we inhabit on the big social media sites. But with the right kind of thinking, investment and policy, it could. Wikipedia has motivated people to build and maintain its compendium of knowledge for free — with a collaborative spirit and. A cadre of volunteer editors sets the standards for how entries are added and updated. Conflict, lies, bias and bad faith are not rewarded; editors get demoted or promoted by the community based on their behavior, and their track records are made public.
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