The Internet considered as a "low trust" society: https://www.wired.com/story/internet-made-dupes-cynics-of-us-all/ …
This is a superb frame for thinking about things, by @zeynep
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I've long been interested in examining *highly functioning* spaces online, which are nearly always small-scale groups, forums, communities; and it occurs to me, reading this, that what those groups have going for them is a high level of intragroup trust
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I've often thought about scale as a problem for social interactions online -- i.e. that scale destroys the ability of a group to manage itself. So the big social-networks' obsession with metastatic growth and scale inevitably ends in woe. Scale --> woe. But more properly ...
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... we need to add the interstitial step: Scale --> breakdown in trust ---> woe.
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