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• hypfer 4y ago
  And yet you participate in society
  • doublepg23 4y ago
    I think it’s reasonable to say federated blogging platforms are a solved problem in 2022 (2023!) I don’t think this is analogous to debates about economic systems.
• smitty1e 4y ago
  "Fragmented" is not "eradicated". The Famous Article: > Why did this happen to the centralized internet when it hadn’t happened to the decentralized internet of previous decades? The reason is that people scale poorly. Dunbar's Number[1] is a thing, and every human effort in physical- or cyber-space, sacred or profane, tends toward a Tower of Babel[2] over time. Those that conform to Gall's Law[3] may prove relatively durable. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_la...
  • CTDOCodebases 4y ago
    > The reason is that people scale poorly. I would propose that humans scale magnificently. Our need for belonging and our propensity for conflict has spread us to all the corners of the earth and it continues to keep us there. Great from the collective perspective if you want to see humanity as a whole survive. Not so great for those who suffer from the conflict though.
    • smitty1e 4y ago
      >> The reason is that people scale poorly. > I would propose that humans scale magnificently. Certainly, apex predator on the food chain. But that is a different point than the human organizational one I was going after.