HUUUGE question.

Firstly - perhaps you could plant a ‘good bug’ garden, which are different varieties of plants that attract the predator insects to keep your ‘pests’ in check. That way you’re creating an eco-system that is about as self-regulating as it can be.

Perhaps in many ways, that’s also a metaphor for your social media behaviour / Values question.

For the most part, I’ve observed that Steem operates explicitly as a community. People can express themselves freely and be true to themselves and their likes/dislikes. Like in an eco-system, everyone does what comes naturally. Hence, self-regulation.

That’s not the case on FB, and was never created to be that. It was centralised from day 1. It was typically ‘civilised human’.

Taoist & Neo-Confucian philosophy makes a distinction between ‘natural’ human tendencies and those that are ‘acquired’ through social/familial/cultural conditioning. The line between the two is blurry.... but (particularly the Taoist) perspective is that the more one tries to ‘regulate’ a system or ‘fix’ problems, the worse it gets.

Great, thought-provoking post
😊🙏🏽☯️

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