People love to latch onto Structurelessness but it seems that I can’t stop hearing about “leadership in Rust” this, “governance in Rust” that, “working group on the subcommittee” this-and-that for the last few years.[1] So an insider realized that they have less power than they do. So what? This isn’t “structurelessness”; it’s just the formal structures having less power in reality, and also insider infighting.

As if informal politicking doesn’t happen inside ostensibly formal governance.

And Graydon has (according to himself) been out of this game for ten years. Then he was like, “Oh this sounds like this meme that I like” (which he came up with as more of a bystander than an insider, by the way).

[1] See the previous submission [2]. How many levels of leaders of the leadership chat on the leadership working group steering committee is it on when it tries to explain the chain of events.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101501

> Fasterthanli.me called out these informal networks and promised to stop participating in them in order to try to minimize their legitimacy

Concretely, he

> Up until recently, I was part of two private online discussion spaces where a bunch of Rust people hung out.

So he’s resigning from two private chats/forums about Rust. Okay.