@riverpunk@defcon.social Honestly, I'd see that as a feature. The human mind is not made to be connected to so many people all the time. Our psychology is still inherently primitive in many ways, making tribe-like group behavior much more natural. The old internet of the 90s allowed you to migrate from tribe to tribe to find wherever you would feel at home. Modern social media thought that by connecting everyone with everyone it would improve our lives. It didn't. Instead it has increased the polarization of our societies. I believe it's because of this psychologically unnatural state of always being connected with all sorts of opposing views our collective minds aren't capable of dealing with that in constructive ways anymore. It's simply overloaded. Fragmented sub-groups would allows us to create these safe-spaces again where we can recharge without having to deal with the whole spectrum of internet denizens.