bailey//rockruff⚪
do you think in a society based on community power, that we'd have more big cities, or small towns?
i like to think of it like cliques/friend groups, the easiest example of self-governed/non-governed social structure.
just like there's a bunch of discord servers and federation instances and all those other fun internet social gathering places, we feel compelled to make a space where we can be our truest selves amongst our friends and share specific interests, in-jokes, ideas
bailey//rockruff⚪
even if we like to have our own spaces, we're always yearning to meet new people, make new friends, grow the possible pool of interactions, probably even beyond what we're capable of keeping up with. mostly to feel like we're getting and giving enough attention, and that there are enough people around that every single one of our interests and ideas can be shared with someone else.
bailey//rockruff⚪
so it's entirely possible that there would be lots of little tiny towns/communities all spread out as far as the eye can see, with a lot of shared/meshed together infrastructure and resources.
but it's also possible that one community might make some sort of huge advancement, or put a bunch of resources all in one place, and slowly absorb a ton of adjacent communities into one big mega community that basically mirrors the likes of cities like toronto
bailey//rockruff⚪
which would be kinda cool but it'd also make a lot of the participants feel relatively small and powerless, and power would start to become centralised due to including everyone on a personal level for proper consensus decision making being too difficult
so maybe that would be a possibility but not necessarily something strictly desirable? and yet it could just like, happen, without really trying or being aware of it?
bailey//rockruff⚪
i guess that's where things like districts would come in, but the close proximity and pooled resources might still make it hard to not step on each others' toes, even if power can be kept on a small scale within individual communities. but it's better than what we have now tbh
Jonkman Microblog is a social network, courtesy of SOBAC Microcomputer Services. It runs on GNU social, version 1.2.0-beta5, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All Jonkman Microblog content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.