Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We therefore propose designing for "inter-community governance:" mechanisms that support relationships and interactions between communities to coordinate on governance issues. Drawing from workshops with 24 individuals on decentralized, community-run social media, we present six challenges in designing for inter-community governance surfaced through ideas proposed in workshops. Together, these ideas come together as an ecosystem of resources, infrastructures, and tools that highlight three key principles for designing for inter-community governance: modularity, forkability, and polycentricity. We end with a discussion of how the ideas proposed in workshops might be implemented in future work aiming to support community governance in social computing systems broadly.

翻译：将社交计算系统的治理权下放给社区，有望使其能够依据自身价值观，以细致入微的方式独立做出决策。然而，社区并非孤立地进行治理。它们面临的许多问题是共通的，或会跨越其边界。因此，我们提出为"跨社区治理"进行设计：即构建支持社区间关系与互动的机制，以便在治理问题上进行协调。基于与24位去中心化、社区运营社交媒体领域人士的研讨会，我们通过研讨会上提出的构想，揭示了设计跨社区治理所面临的六大挑战。这些构想共同构成了一个资源、基础设施和工具的生态系统，凸显了设计跨社区治理的三个关键原则：模块化、可分支性与多中心性。最后，我们讨论了研讨会上提出的构想如何在未来旨在广泛支持社交计算系统中社区治理的工作中得以实施。