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Exactly, the fact that there are more people (at "HN, slashdot, reddit, many IRC channels and many other places") means that you don't really know anyone. Reme

by hodwik 11y ago

Exactly, the fact that there are more people (at "HN, slashdot, reddit, many IRC channels and many other places") means that you don't really know anyone. Remember back when you'd join a new forum, and they'd have a Welcome Thread just for you, asking you about your interests, etc.? When's the last time you've received a real personalized welcome to a web community? I think it's been at least 15 years for me. I'm not sure how many people on Hacker News actually remember that internet, most of the community here might be too young to even know what we're talking about. Edit: Someone ought to make a Web 1.0 emulator, that is invite only. People can set up their own websites, etc. but there is a limited amount of people allowed to join. We can live in the old days FOREVER. XD

derefr 11y ago
A thought coming from military logistics: one of the best things you could do for the "friendliness" or "camaraderie" of a group of people is to cut it into monkeysphere-sized packets (~150 user cap), such that the people in that packet associate mainly with one-another. This is a "Company." So, imagine a website like Reddit, where upon registration, you get assigned at random to a Reddit Company—a little shard of Reddit with its own posts and comments. Imagine further that you could give people an invitation link to allow them to move from their company to yours—again, permanently, though if you made friends in the original company they'd likely be willing to invite you back. This would have a lot of the Web 1.0 feel, I think; the users would probably get to know one-another quite well, and those "welcome threads" would be perfectly common. Interestingly, even though a given user's view of the website would only show items from their partition, you could still use statistical information collected from the entire user-base to do "wisdom of crowds" things, like ranking items. In a company-partitioned Reddit, each post's votes could be aggregated by URL across all Companies, with the Company itself then getting to decide to what degree they care about the tastes of the masses, versus the tastes of their (presumed) peers.
- personlurking 11y ago
  Would the French "Company" only have 49 users? http://i.imgur.com/SLwl1Gl.png http://i.imgur.com/SLwl1Gl.png
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  That's remarkably close to suggestions I've had for a "Dunbar's Web". You could cover the entire population of Earth with a small set of tiers: six or seven, each neighboring with 50-150 others. I also see the possibility for both immigration and some form of exclusion or shunning. There are further complications: the 90/9/1 rule, multiple personals, etc. But I find it interesting.

by hodwik 11y ago

derefr 11y ago

A thought coming from military logistics: one of the best things you could do for the "friendliness" or "camaraderie" of a group of people is to cut it into monkeysphere-sized packets (~150 user cap), such that the people in that packet associate mainly with one-another. This is a "Company." So, imagine a website like Reddit, where upon registration, you get assigned at random to a Reddit Company—a little shard of Reddit with its own posts and comments. Imagine further that you could give people an invitation link to allow them to move from their company to yours—again, permanently, though if you made friends in the original company they'd likely be willing to invite you back. This would have a lot of the Web 1.0 feel, I think; the users would probably get to know one-another quite well, and those "welcome threads" would be perfectly common. Interestingly, even though a given user's view of the website would only show items from their partition, you could still use statistical information collected from the entire user-base to do "wisdom of crowds" things, like ranking items. In a company-partitioned Reddit, each post's votes could be aggregated by URL across all Companies, with the Company itself then getting to decide to what degree they care about the tastes of the masses, versus the tastes of their (presumed) peers.

personlurking 11y ago
Would the French "Company" only have 49 users? http://i.imgur.com/SLwl1Gl.png http://i.imgur.com/SLwl1Gl.png
dredmorbius 11y ago
That's remarkably close to suggestions I've had for a "Dunbar's Web". You could cover the entire population of Earth with a small set of tiers: six or seven, each neighboring with 50-150 others. I also see the possibility for both immigration and some form of exclusion or shunning. There are further complications: the 90/9/1 rule, multiple personals, etc. But I find it interesting.