Society & Culture
Democratization of Curation Authority
A shift from the traditional top-down model where experts, editors, or algorithms unilaterally determine content ranking, toward a mechanism where ordinary users collectively decide content visibility and rewards through micro-interactions such as tipping, liking, and commenting. This transfers curation power from centralized gatekeepers to distributed user communities, fundamentally reshaping creator incentives and platform content ecosystems.
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