[muser8]

I often remark to family and friends that the human race wasn't ready for the capacity for instant communication with 'everyone everywhere all at once' but perhaps that was overly pessimistic and we are developing that muscle. Or is the novelty just wearing off and there are movements to other platforms that aren't represented in the article?

[jug]

There is a Kurzgesagt that I can recommend about this! How our puny brains are ready for socializing and it’s been very important for us, but more on an isolated “tribe” level or at the very least without social networks, arguing that returning to special interest bulletin boards online will probably have us feel better.

https://youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0

[paulmd]

we still are exceptionally bad at managing large in-groups (or ostensible in-groups).

discord is a perfect example, you can fairly easily maintain relationships with 10 groups of 50 people, but 500 people is a chore

[whstl]

Yep. This is why I think super large Reddit communities, and also the federation part of Mastodon, are all a mistake that failed IMO. Sure, those tools need those things to grow, but the end result is as bad as social networking.

"Less is more" has never been apt. I don't want to be able to connect to a billion people :/

[toomuchtodo]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU