Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
by dredmorbius on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:45PM
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Almost certainly from Ribbonfarm:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/27/warrens-plazas-and-the...
The Evaporative Cooling Effect is also a useful notion.
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
Archive as site seems down: https://web.archive.org/web/20101012105003/http://blog.bumbl...
Both are necessary. Neither is superior. They are complements.
I'd hived the idea from elsewhere, and this piece discusses it in the context of trying to form a new community (largely failed), but the ideas may interest:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MKaTH/comments/4ntf5p/public_privat...