Private groups have the lowest barrier to entry.
Public communities have the biggest network effect.
Public squares have no chance.
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The public square trends towards AI slop; the private group trends towards a lasting community.
The obsession with public squares is really strange.
Why would I want a global public square? I have multiple public squares in my city which I avoid, why then would I want to visit one with shit from other ends of the world with niches that are completely meaningless and irrelevant to me?
> Public squares have no chance.
can you elaborate?
Anytime you try to create One Public Square, you have to decide who will be in it. There's a cap on the participants.
I feel like this is now a majority opinion here, vis a vis public squares not being the way ahead.
The tricky part is that to give up on the public square is to accept the need for some form of moderation—and moderation in almost all its forms is traditionally frowned upon here.
Mostly because barely anyone can imagine moderation interop.
Which is normal, since there are zero other places/protocols where that's possible.