Do you know about Mastodon? It's like a decentralized Twitter: there are a bunch of smaller host platforms that can communicate with each other, but the individual hosts can make decisions about who they allow messages from that a larger platform like Twitter can't or won't (e.g. banning all the Nazis and porn spammers).
If Dunbar's number was adopted for social networks, the downside would be that people like me would never have got to ever hear and read and learn things about machine learning that an esoteric few were discussing. Otherwise brilliant article
Do you know about Mastodon? It's like a decentralized Twitter: there are a bunch of smaller host platforms that can communicate with each other, but the individual hosts can make decisions about who they allow messages from that a larger platform like Twitter can't or won't (e.g. banning all the Nazis and porn spammers).
Yup, I've used it before but it didn't seem to have a good level of comment volume.
So... Mastadon's problem is that it has not enough comment volume, but Twitter's problem is that it has too much comment volume? 🙂
Yes. Or rather, that the quality of the comments are not there for Twitter, but there aren't enough comments to get to quality for Mastadon :)
If Dunbar's number was adopted for social networks, the downside would be that people like me would never have got to ever hear and read and learn things about machine learning that an esoteric few were discussing. Otherwise brilliant article