from Centralization to Democratic Polycentricity.
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- The difference between "centralized" and "decentralized" is gradual. The difference between "centralized/decentralized" and "distributed" is in principle
- However, there is no such thing as "distributed vs centralized/decentralized". In each distributed network some "nodes" work like a bottle-neck. Conduits/connections are omnipresent but some migbt be porous, others congested.
- Therefore, two things remain paramaount: the principle of subsidiarity and recognizing, that scale matters. What needs to be discussed is how trust-building works at all levels and how sharing and commoning can be facilitated at every moment.
- agents of the commons aren't "isolated individuals connected in a network", but only real communities can constitute, enact and foster (digital) commons.