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I think we are starting to poke at the uncomfortable edges of the fact that decentralization's Achilles Heel is precisely... decentralization. There's no "queen bee" to make decisions and announce new things. It's like having an ant colony with all workers and no queen.

Back on Steem, the only place I ever felt "informed" was when @Steemchiller was funding his own way to developing SteemWorld.org, and would consistently post weekly updates as to what he was working on, right then. I knew way more about what was happening with SteemWorld than what was happening with Steem. Irony of the day? SteemWorld was NOT open source... and yet it was one of the better built and maintained dApps...

I think there are many that idealize decentralization without being willing to honestly evaluate and address its weaknesses. Hereunder... a lot of people are working hard and building good things, yet few seem to know what anyone else is doing, and what's happening in the broader sense.

Which leaves us considering the possibility that someone has to be "in charge" of communication, which is a centralized sort of idea... BUT... don't we have to sometimes consider functionality ahead of ideals?

I don't have any ready answers, here. Maybe a single "newsreel" account, and if you have DAO funding, you get the posting keys and your funding is dependent on keeping a certain update schedule?