> Wasn't such decentralized politics the liberal ideal? Ideally, I believe so. Practically, you can't drive the adoption of such a change without bootstrapping on top of centralized services using regular old payments. Once the centralized solution is viable, it can be used to build the decentralized. The only requirement is a centralized solution that believes it can gain from a decentralized solution or simply doesn't care because they are a privately owned entity. PrizeForge checks those boxes.
I must note that we have huge shortcomings in practical implementations of governance in the crypto. I have solutions mapped out in PrizeForge and if I can get this thing to the next phase, we will get to see them in action. The FSF has itself not been a scion of governance, having insulated itself and created a monoculture ostensibly to be free from some corrupting influences. IMO this is avoiding rather than solving governance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzvJ8xePds https://prizeforge.com/faq The monks in monasteries model of global open source dominance does present some other challenges, such as the hostility towards commercialization that has been engendered into the culture. Commercialization of the consumer's ability to drive open source is critical to its success, and I am committed to that commercialization. --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
