An interesting difference is no need to fight for land and resources, anyone can go and create another microstate.
Still, there is some benefit of larger states, they can resist spam better. But as much as they implement spam filters in the code, smaller instances can them. Political benefits of open source are real.
Communities growth is hindered by aggressive moderators. Communities are also hindered by the lack of moderation. For the larger communities you’ll see moderators that avoid bans, keep threads and comments within the TOS and Community rules, but largely have a laissez-faire attitude toward moderating. This leads to stronger growth and better communities.
I’d say LW largely falls under the effective altruistic philosophy.
There are Kings who own their instances like countries, and they set up (and shoot down) their Ministers/Mods who govern the people.
It is fully Autocratic.
Federations are diplomatic relations.
Some of these kings are mad, some don’t care and some ironically think kings and capitalists should be killed.
An interesting difference is no need to fight for land and resources, anyone can go and create another microstate.
Still, there is some benefit of larger states, they can resist spam better. But as much as they implement spam filters in the code, smaller instances can them. Political benefits of open source are real.
Communities growth is hindered by aggressive moderators. Communities are also hindered by the lack of moderation. For the larger communities you’ll see moderators that avoid bans, keep threads and comments within the TOS and Community rules, but largely have a laissez-faire attitude toward moderating. This leads to stronger growth and better communities.
I’d say LW largely falls under the effective altruistic philosophy.