it's not really a community if ownership is that concentrated, that's why i'm arguing for the idea of building a design that gives every participant some degree of control over their experience
without being open enough for emergent things to happen it just isn't going to have the ability to grow at all, in the long term
like, i made this gophers chat on matrix, but i didn't do it for me, because most of you all others are either still kinda skeptical or mainly just not that experienced or knowledgeable and actually my posture on it is i'm here to help you all build on what you have and make it useful, and help you solve problems
so i don't want to have very much control at all, it's even better when enough people get involved and they start to be able to do that for each other as well
the same thing would apply for me running a relay to support connecting a community together... i only care about controlling it in as far as it doesn't become controlled by hostile entities
having to "sign up" is friction i don't see having any benefit for promoting social harmony and productive collaboration
