"Social connectedness is a necessary context for discourse," writes Ton Zijlstra, "either stemming from personal connections, or from the setting of the place/event it takes place in. Online discourse often lacks both, discourse crumbles, entropy ensues." As a result, two features are essential for online discourse: our platforms needs to create "a tapestry of overlapping and distinct groups and contexts," and our platforms need to be smaller than the group, meaning that "a group can deploy, alter, maintain, administrate a platform for their specific context." See also, Laura Kalbag, What is Mastodon and why should I use it?
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