Digital commons get stronger with more use, vs physical commons, which get worse.

Because data is non rivalrous, it doesn't suffer from the tragedy of the commons.

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Bits are non-rivalrous in their consumption; you can make infinite perfect copies for free.

So internet bandwidth can have the tragedy of commons, but not the information carried over the wires.

Digital commons tend to get more investment from an ecosystem the more use they get.

The more that others use them, the more that people are invested in making sure information they care about (e.g. information on their hometown) is high quality.

People invest in proportion to how useful other people find the resource to be and how much traffic it gets.

So the more people use it, the more value is naturally created.