Imagine a world where news could *only* flow via private 1:1 gossip links. No common knowledge, no public record for groups >2. You could never be sure that if you heard X, that another person also knew X unless you told them or they told you.
I think we’re headed that way.
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Not quite. Villages were coherent communities with common knowledge broadcast bubbles (churches and town criers in Europe). Now little of significance, relatively speaking, happens at village-CK level.

