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I suspect any popular technology will have drama in the communities surrounding it. Anything high value will have power struggles around it. Same happened with

• pphysch 5y ago
  That's frequently the nature of "community" projects. They're based in a particular idealism wherein authority is a patchable bug and direct democracy can scale infinitely. In reality, they are just free-for-all power struggles. What starts out as anarchic fun and inclusivity among ~1-100 like-minded people scales into dysfunctional sectarianism.