Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing
Perhaps perfect granularity of social networks can be achieved if
little "towns" are aggregated on top of small Unix servers or VPS.<p>A 1GHz 1GB compute unit can probably handle 1000 people, with IRC
level chatting and light browsing a text protocol like Gemini.<p>If each "town" has a maximum population before it becomes a grind and
people want to move out there's a natural feedback mechanism.<p>Am elected local council can take care of some (sysadmin) things and
vote on new services and boundary (firewall rules).<p>If people identify with an online location, instead of an amorphous
brand maybe they'll take pride in the upkeep and so on.<p>It's an interesting metaphor/model, and the Tilde project certainly
seems to have proved it can work. I wonder what wisdom the inhabitants
could give to other federated social projects?