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~moonsheep

that can only happen in small communities [...]

Dunbar's number perhaps?

There's a quiet and bleak seaside village-y sense of peace here, I find.

I really like this way to put it :p

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~tatterdemalion wrote:

Solderpunk recently (-ish) described the smolnet (Gemini and Gopher) as partially serving as a retirement community for the Netscape generation, and that kind of resonates for me.

~tetris wrote:

Dunbar's number indeed! Though sadly there's no scientific proof it really exists. It does make intuitive sense to me, and I even wrote a whole manifesto loosely based around it:

https://midnight.pub/posts/1114