A well-tended community is constrained by things like Dunbar's Number and SNR ratios.
Soft forking is a common response - IMO reddit is the closest social platform to "getting it right", although it should do a better job of pushing low-value content (/r/politics, etc) down into the "minor leagues" of subreddits.
Let us read our Shirky:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050615082335/http://shirky.com...
A well-tended community is constrained by things like Dunbar's Number and SNR ratios.
Soft forking is a common response - IMO reddit is the closest social platform to "getting it right", although it should do a better job of pushing low-value content (/r/politics, etc) down into the "minor leagues" of subreddits.