> Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution.
Even if the whole world isn't built this way, much of it could be, especially groups and interactions.
It’s what you said. The real world. Meet a friend. It’s as private as it gets.
Pick a small friend for true micro experience. :D
Jokes aside, unplug. And it doesn’t have to be that we build things at a world scale. But isn’t it amazing that we can and do build stuff at this scale.
Devs often don’t use tech as much as regular users! They build, and forget the use.
> This! Why is it everything we build is to communicate with the world?
Can’t say why, but it’s been the case since the communcation method of choice was shortwave radio, varying flavours of websites aside. Even just tuning in to a foreign station on a clear frosty night, for those of lesser technical means, was magic. Talking to people you never met on IRC felt like a continuation of that, especially when you had basically nobody in easy physical reach that you could converse with about your interests.
It feels strange to hear people talk as though Steve Jobs announced communication with strangers alongside the iPhone, when it’s always been a big path of the point—and initially most of the point—of the Internet for you.
This! Why is it everything we build is to communicate with the world? The reality is we live in a certain physical space, we can only see, hear and speak at a certain distance and while technology has enabled a way to overcome that, it does feel like we're overwhelmed by the scale of humans we can communicate with. I want to go back to real, small, private connection. Hence micro.