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@shel Most “open source” “governance” seems to be a total clusterjam because everybody thinks they own it but nobody ever tries to decide what that means until it’s too late and hundreds of people are mutually mad at one another
Then someone makes a “community fork” of a project that started with a BDFL, forms a layered committee structure, and stagnates
People like me indulge in derisive mockery
@silby I'd be fine with Mastodon stagnating a little it's not rly lacking rn
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#mastodev is way better than it used to be but a lot of the stuff you take for granted and assume any project would have is stuff that volunteers had to push for. The conversation on governance isn't new. The call for some sort of oversight committee or board of directors or anything to make it not just gargron deciding and running every little thing himself has been going since January 2017, only 2 months after Mastodon as we know it really began... It's been an ongoing struggle