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by blackbrokkoli 71 days ago
Instead of having that one god-author who has to keep maintaining everything, I think a better option may be to have the whole comprehensively community-maintained. Which opens up the question: How do you open source structured data and maintenance?
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I know people don’t like to hear this, but blockchains are great for publishing an append only public log that gets widely replicated.
What does this achieve over, say, git? This is hardly a zero-trust situation, is it?