kaal:claim:3931933-006

Platform centralization is especially damaging in developer communities because developers are the channel through which information from the edges of the system and society enters, and through which consensus on emerging technologies is formed.

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Platform centralization is particularly detrimental in the developer community because it is the developer community that brings information in from the edges of the system/society and helps form a consensus on emerging technologies for society.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021), Platform Centralization, p. 3
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933 · source PDF

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Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

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technology platforms whose direction is controlled centrally

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mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: platform centralization suppressing edge informationfamily: recentralization-driftdecentralizationopen-source-and-codegovernance-designconsensus-and-security

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