• stankmut@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It can make sense when the project is small. The developer of a project can have a large voice and you might have to work with them. The massive growth of Lemmy and the federated nature makes the issue moot.

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      2 years ago

      to a degree, lots of people stopped caring about linus’s opinion on things shortly after compiling the kernel the first time. A more recent project i was on had its creator run out due to him being too controlling the PR list.

      at the scale of the fediverse the attitude really does surprise me.