Default Governance Structure for Web3 Communities

Web3 offers a diverse array of ways for communities to form and collaborate. Within the context of the Geo browser, communities form around spaces, which serve as dedicated platforms for them to engage and coordinate on specific topics. At the broadest level, we find general spaces encompassing areas like politics, science, and culture. These spaces function as societal institutions and can be further divided into smaller, more focused spaces to facilitate the formation of smaller communities centered around more specialized subjects. For instance, the Science space can be subdivided into Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and other related subspaces, while Physics can be further broken down into even more specific areas like Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, and so on.

In Geo browser, each space is afforded the ability to establish its own reputation systems and governance rules, tailored to suit the subject matter that would make it easier to reach a consensus, however, a certain level of democratic principles may be required for public spaces, to ensure that small groups of people or organizations would not be able to overtake and privatize public topics.

During this meetup, we will present an example of the default structure for public spaces governance and will introduce what kind of user roles spaces might have, how these roles could be acquired, and what power they would have.

After introducing the default governance structure it will be open for feedback from participants of the event, some of the questions that we will be tackling:

What are some strengths of this governance structure?

What are some ways that we could mitigate these issues?

What are some ways that we could mitigate these issues?

What might alternative governance structures be?