@Sanjuktampaul @darius @dreww I agree very much!

There are severe sociopolitical diseconomies of scale. There are also real economies of scale—due to fixed costs, mutual insurance capacity, and network effects—but they mostly exhaust themselves lots sooner than the scales we permit. 1/

@Sanjuktampaul @darius @dreww As you say, it should be high priority as a technical challenge to develop coordination mechanisms that let us enjoy the sociopolitical benefits of small scale with smaller costs in technical efficiency and mutual insurance, and an ability to retain whatever is actually valuable in network effects. 2/

@Sanjuktampaul @darius @dreww The best existing fediverse is a great example, albeit a work in progress, of reconciling a desire to retain the value of large networks with the benefits of much smaller scale. Now that we are free(er), there are so many things we might try! /fin