@prometheus I was talking last night with friends who've had headaches with NextDoor. @fl04t was just talking about bad effects caused simply by too many people connecting together Online.
@33MHz Talking about this IRL last Friday - trying to work out what the optimal online community size would be. Didn’t reach an answer - (but my reckoning it’s around 150). //@fl04t@prometheus
@coopey@fl04t@33MHz 150 is not a random number. There is research [which I need to relocate] on optimal social/tribal/village populations that come to that count. Also compares well to troop sizes of apes...but we use language so social span is more.
@igmp_join Ah thanks. I think that's what I had in the back of my mind, but thought the number higher. I will revise my number down then. Maybe to 120, or 100. Like Path.com. Though it didn't work for them. //@33MHz@fl04t@prometheus
@prometheus I think that's why we see a lot of technologists retreat into inaccessible technology, like Gemini protocol, and giving up the public Web, or doing complicated/legally inaccessible pursuits like distributed social networks.