The Dissensus Protocol: Governing Differences in Online Peer Communities
Peer-to-peer networks and protocols have inspired new ideas and ideologies about governance, with the aim of using technology to enable horizontal and decentralized decision-making at scale. This article introduces the concept of “dissensus” from political theory to debates about peer governance in online communities. Dissensus describes the emergence of incompatible differences. Among peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain stands out as a set of ideas that explicitly seek to resolve dissensus through consensus protocols. In this article, we propose dissensus as a “protocol” for foregrounding the often sidelined yet productive aspects of incompatible differences. The concept highlights that there might not always be consensus about a consensus algorithm, and that indeed, dissensus is the precondition for new possibilities and perspectives to emerge. We discuss the concept in relation to the histories of governance ideas in blockchain, namely, a “materialist,” “design,” and “emergent” approach. We then describe moments of dissensus in practice through two cases of online communities, Genesis DAO and Ouishare, discussing their different ways of recognizing and navigating dissensus. Finally, we give a critical overview of consensus algorithms, voting, staking, and forking as the mechanisms that make out blockchain governance ideologies. In conclusion, we argue that dissensus can serve as a useful concept for pointing attention to governance as it is conducted in practice, as h...
The Padawan DAO - 🕯 Community - 🤩 MetaCartel Forum
PadawanDAO Inspired by @Ricburton legendary team of hackers at ETHlisbon. See Tweet Idea We MetaCartel Fund a DAO of young G’s going to conferences, the young G’s select new young G’s to join them by giving a sponsorship for an event. They keep paying it forward to new members of the group by accepting new member proposals to the group. Conferences like ETHDenver, DevCon, MCON, are ideal events to activate new talent. Execution I have a few young G summoners in mind to help bootstrap the s...
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What is Web3? Should You Care? - Mischa Spiegelmock
Web3 is: read/write/execute with artificial scarcity and cryptographic identity. Should you care? Yes. What? Let’s break it down. Back when I started my career, “web2.0” was the hot new thing. The “2.0” part of it was supposed to capture a few things: blogs, rounded corners on buttons and input fields, sharing of media online, 4th … Continue reading What is Web3? Should You Care? →
What skillsets are needed to contribute to a DAO? — Mirror
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If you’re looking for ways to make positive adjustments to your daily life. There is so much stuff you can do. From reading books to watching videos to actually doing the strategies suggested in the just mentioned mediums. But if you don’t have time for everything, like most mortals, focus on understanding one thing. Learn more about systems thinking. Everything around you is a system. And every system is part of another system. By understanding how things around you interlink. You become better at seeing how things work together and how these same things can be manipulated, changed, modified to…
Five Dimensions Of Impact - Effective Way To Demonstrate Impact
Impact Management Project provides best way to understand social impact based on the Five Dimensions Of Impact. Best way to demonstrate impact evidence.
Reggie James on Expanding Our Cultural Reference Points — Mirror
“How we choose to do what we need to do is the basis of culture; the difference between grabbing a bodega sandwich to sitting down for omakase. All these nuances across the spectrum of experience. But if crypto doesn’t care to find new wells, to expand our reference points, we’ll all stay thirsty for what we know we can do”
web3 is re-writing everything. An introduction. — Mirror
Anyone who knows me knows that writing is not one of my best skills - but I’m forcing myself to do it because I want to share how fundamentally different I see the world now that I understand the things in this article - so that maybe you’ll see it too.
How DAOs Can Better Reward & Align Incentives Between Creators -
tl;dr: creator DAOs have the opportunity to create better incentives between creators and fans leading to improved discoverability, more accessible creator
Everyone is loving NFTs, and celebrities are enjoying a good chunk of the fun as well. From mainstream rappers to TV personalities to sports players, high-profile names are all rushing to buy into NFTs. One celebrity, however, legendary movie director Quentin Tarantino to be specific, might just get into it with the Pulp Fiction production […]