Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media

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Main Authors:	Hwang, Sohyeon, Rollins, Sophie, Nunes, Thatiany Andrade, Liu, Yuhan, Wong, Richmond, Shaw, Aaron, Monroy-Hernández, Andrés
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Human-Computer Interaction Social and Information Networks
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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author	Hwang, Sohyeon Rollins, Sophie Nunes, Thatiany Andrade Liu, Yuhan Wong, Richmond Shaw, Aaron Monroy-Hernández, Andrés
author_facet	Hwang, Sohyeon Rollins, Sophie Nunes, Thatiany Andrade Liu, Yuhan Wong, Richmond Shaw, Aaron Monroy-Hernández, Andrés
contents	Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We therefore propose designing for "inter-community governance:" mechanisms that support relationships and interactions between communities to coordinate on governance issues. Drawing from workshops with 24 individuals on decentralized, community-run social media, we present six challenges in designing for inter-community governance surfaced through ideas proposed in workshops. Together, these ideas come together as an ecosystem of resources, infrastructures, and tools that highlight three key principles for designing for inter-community governance: modularity, forkability, and polycentricity. We end with a discussion of how the ideas proposed in workshops might be implemented in future work aiming to support community governance in social computing systems broadly.
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spellingShingle	Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media Hwang, Sohyeon Rollins, Sophie Nunes, Thatiany Andrade Liu, Yuhan Wong, Richmond Shaw, Aaron Monroy-Hernández, Andrés Human-Computer Interaction Social and Information Networks Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We therefore propose designing for "inter-community governance:" mechanisms that support relationships and interactions between communities to coordinate on governance issues. Drawing from workshops with 24 individuals on decentralized, community-run social media, we present six challenges in designing for inter-community governance surfaced through ideas proposed in workshops. Together, these ideas come together as an ecosystem of resources, infrastructures, and tools that highlight three key principles for designing for inter-community governance: modularity, forkability, and polycentricity. We end with a discussion of how the ideas proposed in workshops might be implemented in future work aiming to support community governance in social computing systems broadly.
title	Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media
topic	Human-Computer Interaction Social and Information Networks
url	https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19653