Stop Asking Open Source Maintainers to ‘Bend the Knee’
When a 7-month-old forum tried to declare itself the central hub for Ruby maintainers, the community rebelled. This visceral backlash reveals a hard truth: open source is built on autonomy, and any attempt at forced centralization is seen as a demand to ‘bend the knee.’ Centralized platforms always become gatekeepers, and trust is the only currency that matters.