@ODELL, I love you but you turned my pleasant nostr timeline into a twitter feed of “I love devs and you hate devs!”
Please consider having a long form podcast discussion somewhere on the deeper issues.
A few on my mind:
1) Are the core devs and the development process too centralized? Is there anything that can be done to reduce risk? Do we want large companies to fund devs? How do we avoid a situation like big pharma funding the FDA?
2) The community fought hard for small 1 MB blocks. Why were we surprised by ~4 MB blocks and spam jpegs. Was this a failure of software architecture? Communication?
3) What should be our software design philosophy for Core? Should we add powerful new technologies where the full use and abuse cases are unknown? Or rather should we select only the most important use cases and then tightly enabling only those narrow purposes?
4) We all saw how a contributor almost got malicious software into Linux. Are we funding enough security auditors?
5) Is there a way to improve communication between the devs and the community? If we need a site perhaps we should build it.
What else am I missing?
Thank you. 🙏
