It's not the total user count, but the flattening of different groups that didn't need and frankly didn't ask to be constantly smushed together: https://en.wik

It's not the total user count, but the flattening of different groups that didn't need and frankly didn't ask to be constantly smushed together: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse In real life interaction happens in short term and long term physical and social bubbles where the way you act and present information naturally takes into consideration the people you're interacting with. How you talk to a customer is different from how you talk to to your friend, is different from how you talk to your partner, is different from how you talk to your boss, and is different from how you talk when all four relationships are in one conversation together. On the Internet— and basically only on the Internet— you'll say something meant for your knitting discussion group, and then Rocky, Steve, Gwen, and Stacy from the guitar, farming, volcanology, and motorcycle communities will butt in and take offence— because the geniuses in charge of the platform have decided that human progress is best measured in terms of how many people they can blindly jam into the same room at once.