By moving subsidiarity into technical architecture, rather than human policy, the fediverse can move from *antagonism* (the "zero-sum destructiveness" that dominates current online debate) to #agonism, where your opponent isn't an enemy - they are a "political adversary":

yalelawjournal.org/article/the…

Here, Rozenshtein cites @320x200 and @rra's "Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss":

test.roelof.info/seven-theses.…

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The Administrative Agon: A Democratic Theory for a Conflictual Regulatory State

Scholars have long debated whether the administrative state is a democratic institution. This Article offers a new framework for analyzing this question—one drawn from agonistic democratic theory.

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