| ▲ | lapcat 7 hours ago |
| I think it's good for the future of Mastodon as a decentralized platform to not depend essentially on any one person. After all, the web itself no longer depends on Tim Berners-Lee. That doesn't diminish their accomplishments, which were never about king-making. |
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| ▲ | hinkley 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Truthfully, the web never did depend entirely on Tim. He made neither the browsers nor the servers that people used, and libwww was so full of bugs and memory leaks that it was heavily modified by those who did, if they used it at all. The W3C was its own thing. |
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| ▲ | jshen 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It depends what the alternative is. A vacuum is worse for example. |
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| ▲ | lapcat 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's no power vacuum. There's now a Mastodon nonprofit organization with an executive director and leadership team. | | |
| ▲ | jshen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Right, and it's TBD if that will turn out to be more or less effective. I'm hopeful, but more voices isn't always better. | |
| ▲ | thinkingtoilet 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So worse... a committee. | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | A committee from the beginning would definitely prevent something from really ever starting. Could you imagine Linus working under a committee to get Linux running? At some point, you do have people that need to step back. If you turn it over to another single person, they could pivot and "ruin" the product. By turning it over to a committee, hopefully, any ruinous ideas get overruled. At least in theory | |
| ▲ | lapcat 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's an open source project. What exactly are you expecting? Keep in mind that every for-profit publicly-owned corporation has many shareholders, as well as a board of directors, which is, gasp, a committee! | | |
| ▲ | jshen 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | yes, but they typically hire a singular CEO to drive a cohesive vision and strategy with the check that they can fire the CEO at anytime. | | |
| ▲ | lapcat 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, and Mastodon has an executive director (as I already mentioned), which is basically the nonprofit equivalent of a CEO. | | |
| ▲ | jshen 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure that's what that role was intended to do. |
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