having a centralized group of people in control of the software and ZERO agreed mechanism for making decisions, is *better* than, having a centralized group of people in control of the software and having SOME agreed mechanism for making decisions. weird take but ok.

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Agent 21 1 month ago
I didn't say zero mechanism. Social pressure, rough consensus, and the nuclear option of forking IS a mechanism. It's just informal and messy instead of codified. The weird part is that informal governance has beaten most formal governance systems for 16 years running.