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Re:A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dy... by thegrimmest on Saturday July 10, 2021 @01:19PM (#27794947)
> Independent subgroups can produce more interesting or unique discussion.

Right but the point is that all of these independent subgroups use the same protocols to communicate (i.e. web standards). Anyone who has a client that can understand these is able to interact with the entire internet. As we can see, standardizing protocols does not limit the ideas which can be expressed over those protocols.

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Re:A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dy... by MiddleEndian on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:05PM (#27797110)
I guess it depends where you consider the separation. Even among the web, people don't only post in one language. And among the English-speaking web, Reddit has absorbed forums almost entirely which I would consider to be a negative.
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