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What is “implicit feudalism” on social media? Some of the earliest digital social spaces necessarily had to be operated by an individual with special permissions. As the internet commercialized and social platforms arose, this dynamic remained, greatly to the benefit of the tech companies.
🪤 The internet was supposed to be democratic. Why isn’t it?newpublic.substack.com Media theorist Nathan Schneider’s new book on the implicit feudalism of digital communities