“We will not be drawn into a contest between global powers.”
Is he speaking for South Africa or for BRICS as a block? Because China clearly wants to draw BRICS into the contest.
It's kind of weird to talk about BRICS as the next Non-aligned Movement when China is one of the two geopolitical poles and Russia engaged in great power struggle.
As many as 40 countries want to join BRICS, according to South Africa’s 2023 summit chair.
China and Russia would like to see those as some kind of anti-West coalition, but most of them likely want to enter just for the development money.
become unstable
disappear forever
defederate or become defederated from/by my instance
same for the instances of other users of that community
I kind of get this, but:
it seems premature to split the community "just in case"
this is largely a technical problem. IMHO communities should be federated in the sense that losing the instance shouldn't automatically mean the community is lost.
Communities can have the same topic, but differ in
moderation style
policies regarding if and how bots are allowed
Also possible, but in most cases a large majority of community members can certainly agree on some compromise.
Why are communities split? If you’re right and there’s really no good reason, then how comes this phenomenon occurs so often?
the lack of community federation
"my instance is better than yours" - which IMHO originates again from the lack of community federation
some mods just like the unrestricted power over their fiefdom
78 people contributed in the form of code commits, but more people likely contributed to the release in other ways (QA, triage, release management etc.)
All the things you named are things that I think should largely be kept the same. Having them be identical or near enough to it is the goal I’m trying to achieve.
So you just want to give Google total control over the core web platform technologies and other browsers will just accept what Google decided. That's exactly the state I'd like to avoid.
Pilot leaned out of the window too much and fell off.