There was an article featured the other day about how some communities on some subreddits become hostile when the community size gets too large [0] [1]. The art

There was an article featured the other day about how some communities on some subreddits become hostile when the community size gets too large [0] [1]. The article estimated that the critical size was Dunbar's number (150) raised to 2.5, which gives about 300k. Mastodon.lol looks to have been around 67k up until recently [2] (which gives an exponent of about 2.2). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713553 [1] https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/scaling-problems-in-social-control https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/scaling-problems-in-soc... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20221122205835/https://mastodon.lol/explore https://web.archive.org/web/20221122205835/https://mastodon....