"Scalable projects are those that can expand without changing." Anna Tsing

What an elegant definition. I could quibble with her exemplars and her conclusions, but even across those quibbles, her definition holds.

Something to think about relative to Mastodon Vs Bird goals for expansion too, and all the discourse of what this site is for old&new members...

https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article/18/3/505/6827/On-NonscalabilityThe-Living-World-Is-Not-Amenable

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Philosopher Manuel deLanda writes

‘the emergence of an ecosystem is a blind groping from stable state to stable state in which each [...] assemblage creates the conditions that stabilize the next one'

There is some insight there for the present of mastodon and its fore-bearers...

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