[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 :/