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To paraphrase a common joke, it’s called the Fediverse because it’s full of feds.

https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw

This was probably a rare Babylonbee hit and OP was rightfully ashamed of the source.

I’m really wondering what it means myself! Is it like superstitious programming? Or “cookie cutter” perhaps, using templates and copy-paste from QA sites to duct tape it all together?

I really need to sit down and write out my full thoughts on this. I’ve been obsessed with Conway’s Law for years. I think it applies very broadly.

[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

Capitalism and its seeming totality are related to this. Because we are forced to live under capitalism, all our efforts end up reproducing it. That’s why anarachy is the only real solution. Its the only system that proposes radically uprooting the way we live first (bottom up) and then letting the high level organization emerge from that new mode of living.

All other forms propose the impossible idea that a distributed, fully realized democracy can be forced into existence using top-down controls. But, to modify an old saying, while the master’s tools have many uses, we cannot use the plantation schematics to build a commune.

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