Groups chats work as social networks because of social pressure tricks:
• Read receipts
• Displaying "John was online 43m ago"
• Continuous pressure to reply "enough"
• Small chats can have strong norms (no outrage/politics) implicitly enforced per reply
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Small group chats (≤5 people) are good at enforcing strong norms like no politics/outrage. Chats implicitly enforce per-member participation. If one member gets political regularly and others don't like it, they'll prob move to a chat w/o them. This usually isn’t explicit too!
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Huh. I'm in a bunch of group chats (including Slacks and Discords) that I basically ignore they're all still quite active. I wonder if this is because those are closer to being full-on communities
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Yeah how big are they? I think the optimal size is 3 or 4 and things start going downhill fast after you pass 5 people
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yeah def bigger than that. too high-volume for me to keep up with
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Yeah I almost never keep up with those then. After a certain size, it makes sense to graduate from chat to something like a mastodon instance
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