The platform-creator relationship makes things even more confusing, because it’s not always clear whether a creator is operating in the platform’s space or in their own. Moderation, for example, requires that communities be empowered to self-organize and manage their own rules, as we discovered from Ostrom’s work. Platforms ought to give creators the tools they need to manage their own communities. But platforms also face enormous public pressure to develop their own moderation policies, which are difficult to apply indiscriminately to every creator and their respective community.

— Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (74%)