> imagine if we had thousands First you spoke of 50, then 500 (web sites), now thousands (yet you only managed to name 6).. this is starting to resemble reduct

> imagine if we had thousands First you spoke of 50, then 500 (web sites), now thousands (yet you only managed to name 6).. this is starting to resemble reductio ad absurdum. You haven't really made a convincing argument for why we might have excessive variety, such as an unusually low barrier to entry compared with other open source tools. Moreover, I'm pretty sure your arguments could also be used in favor of federation, rather than centralization.