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by greenhatman 1670 days ago
I suspect any popular technology will have drama in the communities surrounding it. Anything high value will have power struggles around it.

Same happened with Node as it gained popularity.

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That's frequently the nature of "community" projects. They're based in a particular idealism wherein authority is a patchable bug and direct democracy can scale infinitely.

In reality, they are just free-for-all power struggles. What starts out as anarchic fun and inclusivity among ~1-100 like-minded people scales into dysfunctional sectarianism.