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@ Freakoverse
2025-03-09 20:22:45
Thought:
If an open-source project has its lead team or contributors go nuts (example: Godot, Firefox, and so on), people would fork and use the alt (Redot, Brave, and so on), however, the marketing effects is still there, and the main brand control of the domain would still be there, where depending on how big the project got, normies would still go there and download the bad non-forked one.
What if, in an act of good faith and a true push for 'if we fuck up, you can fork the project' and 'the market decides', the main domain is set up in a way its created using a template list of repos for the project, highlighting the top voted repo at the top (with WoT engaged), then that site's keys would be thrown away so that it can never be changed again.
The 'throw away the keys' bit probably won't work on the current domain system, but I'd imagine that's possible on other domain systems (like the nostr one).
With that said, if a similar situation happens, people would go to that link and see that 'Redot is the new Godot' or 'Brave is the new Firefox' and so on as they see it at the top. Ensuring not only 'if you fuck up, we'll fork you' but also 'and we'll take your foundational marketing efforts too from here on out'.