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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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submitted 4 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon to c/microblogmemes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

tit-for-tat works in a larger setting as well, in fact it works better because you can ostracize and punish.

I didn't know that! Do you have a source?

[–] orrk 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PT has a number of good articles but this one seems to convey it rather well

Cornell even has a description of it having naturally evolved as the preferable strategy in their description

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

These appear to be regarding typical 2 player prisoner's dilemmas. What I'm curious about is if there's an academic literature about this for larger groups, where they ostracize and punish.

Because if it works for them, then it can work for us... We could build unions where we signal to each other the same way, without need for central leadership.