When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors