So before I even start let me say this is not something I'm suggesting we do. The idea just came to me today and I thought it was interesting and that I'd share.
Currently when you make a Community you are the owner. You can decide who can post in the community with mutes, you can assign admins or mods, it really all comes down to you. As I was thinking about my own communities, one thing I struggled with was how to not make this "my" community, but feel more like "our" community. Before I'd thought the only way to probably get that in a tangible way would be to launch a token and people will have stake in the community.
Then something else came to me. What if upon creation of a community you were issued a token, and that token represented the ownership of the community. Your permission level in the community might be determined by how much of the token you own.
This would open the doors to community mergers and acquisitions. Imagine you build a community from the ground up and develop it for years, then life happens and you don't have time to manage it anymore. You could sell your controlling stake to the next in line or put it on the open market.
This could especially become lucrative as Communities start to develop more and break off into their own frontends, monetization, SMT's and economies. All totally decentralized without needing to engage with any government currencies or jurisdictions. Totally parallel economies that could be self sustaining and autonomous. Sounds pretty powerful.
What do you all think?
