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Because who is the community? The first N people that happen to show real interest? You always need someone to have a clear vision and define an architecture fo
by Double_a_92 4y ago
Because who is the community? The first N people that happen to show real interest? You always need someone to have a clear vision and define an architecture for it.
And if you don't want that to be an individual person you still need a stable and trustworthy team that decides on something something. But even that is already a compromise since it slows things down, by a lot.
Also what if "the community" has contradicting views? One wants a platform for long in-depth posts, and one wants a twitter clone or a tiktok clone or whetever... It just doens't work. You are just projecting your own vague ideas into what you assume the people to also want.
- denysvitali 4y agoHaving a big community is probably what really should help kicking off the project - if the community counts 10 people with similar backgrounds it's very likely that the choices here will be biased. Having a bigger and more diverse community (with different backgrounds) should help have a more fair overview and by democratic voting the project should proceed in a way that it causes the least amount of people to not be happy with the choices. I'll personally not protect my own ideas, because I'm not the project owner - it's meant to be a community effort and I expect to see waay more than one person in the driver seat.
- nbittich 4y agoAt least mastodon is built on top of an open protocol. Those discussion already took place for ActivityPub, mastodon just implemented the open standard. You just came with a random idea and absolutely nothing but an organization on GitHub.