# kaal:claim:3931933-006

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- technology platforms whose direction is controlled centrally

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake* (2021), Platform Centralization, page 3

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

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**Failure mode.** platform centralization suppressing edge information  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization, open-source-and-code, governance-design, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** platform-centralization, developer-community, information-from-edges, governance, technology-consensus

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