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@natesjacobs @csarven @lesliekwchan @ewout @sciteai @CrossrefOrg (30/N) Then it seems a good strategy would be to make sure that the governance of the centralised entity is controlled by the community it serves.

@natesjacobs @csarven @lesliekwchan @ewout @sciteai @CrossrefOrg (29/N) Fair enough.

@natesjacobs @csarven @lesliekwchan @ewout @sciteai @CrossrefOrg (28/N) You'd think we'd learn that perhaps the real issue is governance. Our worry about centralisation is shorthand for "we don't trust the centralised system will work in our interests."

@natesjacobs @csarven @lesliekwchan @ewout @sciteai @CrossrefOrg (27/N) Which brings us to "oligopoly", "monopoly", etc. Given the repeated pattern we have seen of distributed systems being co opted by centralised systems...

@natesjacobs @csarven @lesliekwchan @ewout @sciteai @CrossrefOrg (26/N) “Distributed begets centralised.” For every distributed communication system we have developed, somebody has had to develop a centralised system to make it usable.