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~tskaalgard

I also feel like there used to be more spaces online specifically designed to facilitate this. Now they've all been turned into terrible smartphone-centric Tinder clones. And of course, society continues to atomize at alarming rates... I don't think I've changed that much in the past decade — I feel like everything around me has radically shifted.

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~gerwitz wrote (thread):

Upon recent reflection, I think the difference is less a matter of “design” and more a result of scale. Small communities (and pubs) provide intimacy that is lost in the open internet.

Perhaps, we can hope, Gemini being “less” than the web will foster more small pubs.