ONESarmiento's Blogspot

tags : - Substack - Social_Media The Warning from the Edge of the Web Imagine you are standing on a pier, watching a massive ocean liner pull away from the dock. The lights are bright, the music is playing, and thousands of people are waving from the decks. From a distance, it looks like progress. It looks like the future. But as you look closer, you notice the hull is rusting. The captain isn’t looking at the horizon; he’s looking at a spreadsheet. And most importantly, the lifeboats are being sold off to pay for more champagne. For years, many of us—led by voices like J. Thomas Dunn—viewed platforms like Substack as that lifeboat. We thought we had finally found a way to escape the "attention economy" of social media—the endless scrolling, the rage-baiting, and the algorithmic overlords that decide who gets to speak and who gets silenced. We were promised a "Better World" where writers could talk directly to readers, and where depth mattered more than ...

tags : - Social_Media - Digital_Commons - Content_Moderation - Elinor_Ostrom - Online_Governance Governing the Digital Commons What Elinor Ostrom can teach social media about freedom, trust, and fair rules The Problem: Social Media Is a Shared Space Without Shared Care Social media is not just a place to post vacation photos or argue with strangers. It is where people learn the news, find work, build communities, promote businesses, debate politics, organize movements, and form opinions about the world. That creates one hard question: How do we let people speak freely without letting the space become unsafe, dishonest, or useless? If a platform removes too much content, people feel censored. If it removes too little, harassment, spam, misinformation, and hate spread through the space like trash in a public park. Then good users leave, stop posting, or stop trusting what they see. So this is not only a technology problem. It is not only a legal problem. It is ...

tags : - Social_Media - Content_Moderation - Digital_Governance - Elinor_Ostrom - Online_Communities 1. The Problem: Social Media Is a Shared Space Without Good Shared Rules Social media is not just a place to post photos or argue with strangers. It is where people learn news, build communities, promote businesses, debate politics, organize movements, and form opinions about the world. That means social media has a big problem: How do you let people speak freely without letting the space become unsafe, dishonest, or useless? If a platform removes too much content, people feel censored. If it removes too little, harassment, spam, misinformation, and hate can spread. Then good users leave, stop posting, or stop trusting the platform. This is not just a technology problem. It is not just a legal problem. It is a governance problem. Think of a public park. A park works because people share it. But it only stays useful if there are rules. People cannot dump tras...