@evan I did search for a lot of free software people.
It was not good.
@dneary @evan i only vaguely know who joi ito is because his name came up in a conversation once 14 years ago when i worked at creative commons and someone was weird about me not recognizing the name 😅 idk who any of those other people you name dropped are
my meaning is I don't think there's all that many degrees of separation between people of prestige and power and people for whom these kinds of problems are completely alien
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"Note that Conway's Law is not tackled in this work method, at least not in the way it should to be safe against the forces of hypercapitalism."
The "forces of hypercaptitalism" and the forces of centralisation are one and the same. Always have been, always will be. This debate is at least as old as that between Marx and Bakunin in the 19th century;
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sam-dolgoff-bakunin-vs-marx
Given how the USSR and every other authoritarian Marxist project has worked out, history rules for Bakunin.
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Having a central authority dictate protocol usage for a decentralised network is a contradiction-in-terms.
What you characterise as the ...
"... laissez faire work method of 'post-facto interop' as sole driver for fediverse evolution."
... is how internet standards work. Always has been, always will be.
People doing standards work at IETF, W3C, etc, are not 'MPs of the net', making protocol laws that everyone must follow. They are implementors, documenting best practice in the wild.
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"... there's a sweet spot between the commons that is free to experiment and progress, and the open standards catching up with that to not allow too much divergence in terms of protocol decay and tech debt ..."
@smallcircles, 2026
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/132#issuecomment-13299483
Agreed. But protocol decisions are and will always be made by implementers and deployers. And to some extent by the early adopters, who choose which apps (and therefore which protocols) to pimp to the mainstream.
Continuing the OT discussion with @smallcircles that started here;
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/132
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@mkb right, but it's also a huge pain in the ass.
@evan It’s very profitable and he surely understands he could face legal jeopardy as soon as he’s not steering the ship.
@BBCNews @top-stories-BBCNews that is a lot to spend on an object that didn't work for its previous owner
@mkb that's interesting. Why? I don't think he likes it that much.