It really annoys me how there are a bunch of nominally cool projects by people to radically improve some aspect of society, computing, etc...
... and then you discover that they *only* care about that one aspect, and refuse to consider that anything else should maybe also be different, and staunchly insist on doing it the 'traditional' way.
I would really like an (explicitly-defined-to-exist) community that cares about organizing to 'radically improve things' in general, with an open and constructive stance to new ideas by default.
And like, I'm not expecting people to take on a million projects at the same time. I just want a place that leaves room for other people to take on other such projects, and that desires to collaborate with them.
The places I'm complaining about here, instead, practically run you out of town for suggesting different things, declaring them "offtopic" or saying that "we can't take on that project" (even though you never asked them to and even explicitly said that you don't expect that).
@joepie91 I'm having a hard time trying to understand what you expect. What happened that moved you to write this? You have any examples and expected behavior?
Open source projects, to name something that fits in your description, usually focus on what maintainers can handle, and that's usually why they shut things that they deem off topic, as it add noise to what they can handle with their limited time and resources.