• Communist@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    There may be a need for improvement overtime… but that has nothing to do with if competition is helpful.

    This is free open source software, it’s better to have many people working together on one project than a bunch of projects being worked on separately, for reasons I think are obvious.

    There isn’t a race to be the king of the fediverse, competition does nothing but make people work separately on something that should be worked on cooperatively, it accomplishes nothing but slowing down development. If we used competition, when a new feature was implemented, now instead of it being implemented for everyone, it’ll be implemented in one particular codebase, and if other people want to implement it, there will be a massive duplication of effort.

    What does competition in this space actually do for the community? As far as I see it, absolutely nothing at all, except duplicating effort.

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      @communist okay I can see where you’re coming from - I just understood to start that you think it would thrive better without any other companies, and honestly the people on those platforms doing what they are doing wouldn’t come as benefit to a community like this nor would it get in the way if they continue. And the features set to come over the years are something that by…having let’s call them, colleagues in the industry, working on different aspects that may become of benefit

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        These aren’t companies, these are projects, lemmy/mastodon are co-operatively worked on and can be worked on by any number of companies.

        I don’t want a corpo internet, that’s kind of the point of federation.