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The Swarm and the Formation

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☀️ Summer of Protocols / 📁 Projects / 🐝 The Swarm and the Formation Search Duplicate Open Notion Drag image to reposition 🐝 The Swarm and the Formation SoP Discord handle: rafa (UTC+1)🐝 Twitter: @rafathebuilder /// Website: rafael.fyi /// Blog(ish): rafa.mirror.xyz Reading Community: folklore.institute Project Abstract On the internet, we are part of ‘Swarms’; networks of people, bots, and content, coordinated through algorithmic feedback loops. Swarms are harbingers of misinformation, heralds of mutual aid, and representatives of the public will. But this is not our grandparents’ crowd. Swarms are networked tempests of humans and information. Most importantly, they can act collectively without central coordination (explicit protocols); they are minimally protocolized entities. In this research, we document a variety of swarms, such as the mutual aid response to the devastating Hurricane María, to uncover their unique methods of cooperation. To understand swarms, we also need to un

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