I tend to think the small scale worked better for more meaningful connections (high signal to noise, content to interest, less counting likes and subs, less ads) My best experiences online aren’t Big Social : it’s small forums, IRC chatrooms with high engagement, high trust scenarios like people being themselves immediately without anonymity.

I tend to think lots of social spaces have been engineered by engineers, not people. The tech has been more important than the value it can bring in a human context. (Exaggerating for emphasis here, it’s not black and white but functionally true)

Big fan of the Six Idea’s (M.J. Adler) for meaningful life that is fairly universal: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty - the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice - the ideas we act on.

I feel a food online social space should strive for high marks in these areas.