the big value of delicious was the central aggregation, which becomes difficult in a decentralized manner that said, i always wanted to split delicious up into

the big value of delicious was the central aggregation, which becomes difficult in a decentralized manner that said, i always wanted to split delicious up into "islands" of ~50k users or so, and allow each island determine it's own local rules. and if you didn't like your island, you could go elsewhere. yahoo wouldn't entertain this idea at the time.... this was before subreddits happened but the success of subreddits suggests to me that i was directionally correct