I think this is exactly right, and applies to learning technology as well: "In a world where custom code can be created far more easily than it could in the past, communities can more easily build bespoke spaces for themselves. There's no need to adopt a one-size-fits-all platform - even an open source one - when you can ask for the exact features you want." Rather, "What would be needed then are agreed-upon rules about how community platforms behave." This is where it gets tricky, because protocol-writers have historically been over-ambitious in their scope. My view is that syntax belongs to protocols, while semantics belongs to communities. That's (in my view) what Werdmuller describes as "the human stuff that rises to the top when code becomes more of a solved problem."
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