Arrives at a similar call for deliberate moderation and communities of human-scale judgment as have familiar observers like Jon Haidt, Arthur C Brooks, and the “small web” crowd. Probably nothing new to most of the folks here, but I appreciated the broad view of the trenches we labor in from the perspective of a political person.
> Every platform eventually follows the same arc: nobility gives way to monetization, and monetization gives way to enshittification. But the true cost of enshittification isn’t just a worse internet experience. It’s a worse society.
PaulHoule•9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_crisis
He looked for solutions in his later
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Ac...
which seem dangerously naive in the current day of online platforms. See also the concepts of "input legitimacy" vs "output legitimacy"
https://macleans.ca/general/two-concepts-of-legitimacy/
the critical discussion in the Democratic Party is around "deliverism" and the alternate ideas that it has to get some successes and get things right to build legitimacy vs the view that things just happen to us and we can't count on things going right so why try?
alwa•9mo ago
It feels like there must be a lot of good thought about that new mode of bottom-up legitimacy-building (and of impugning fustier real-world institutions)—would you happen to have any reading suggestions off the top of your head?