[notarobot123]

> Situated software isn't a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or completeness as unqualified virtues.

I read a paper about social media being the way it is because of it's scale above other factors[0]. There's something to be said for small, purpose built software networks that never intend on eating the world.

I wonder if the barriers to entry for building stuff like this is going down. Maybe there's still hope for a network of networks that looks more like this.

[0] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03385