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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 09:16:08 UTC Bob Mottram
   http://archive.org/download/shortfunk/sfmaintainingapragmaticgroupoffriendsonfacebook.mp3
   
   It has been said before that there may be an optimal community size, and something like the Robin Dunbar observation of 100-150 seems common. Beyond that it's mostly just entropy or you run up to the physical limits of how much you can read and write in a given time span.
   
   If you're designing for federation or self-hosting then maybe optimizing around this sort of number is reasonable, and I expect that it happens already anyway but without explicit knowledge.
   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 09:40:58 UTC Bob Mottram

     • Maiyannah Bishop
     @maiyannah and I think that's why you see people who have been in the silos for a while either quitting or unfollowing a lot of other accounts. Everyone has a "this has become a stream of nonsense" threshold. The silos try to get around it with algorithmic timelines, but that only adds other problems.