> You can intentionally choose to keep your community small, but you have to admit that’s exclusionary. I think there's another option here. Namely, that the i

> You can intentionally choose to keep your community small, but you have to admit that’s exclusionary. I think there's another option here. Namely, that the intended "vibe" or usual experience for individual users is such that their experiences have that level of person-to-person familiarity. Also I feel like, in this passage you moved ambiguously from talking about protocols as a whole to a sense of "community" within the protocol, and its not clear to me whether its the protocol itself or a particular community that is confronting the issue of scaling or not scaling. The aspiration for an "old internet" vibe, that you might find in usenet, email, bulletin boards, or various forms of chat, or webrings, makes sense as an aspired-to "vibe" without committing oneself to a side on scaling or not scaling.