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.A 1GHz 1GB compute unit can probably handle 1000 people, with IRC
level chatting and light browsing a text protocol like Gemini.If each "town" has a maximum population before it becomes a grind and
people want to move out there's a natural feedback mechanism.Am elected local council can take care of some (sysadmin) things and
vote on new services and boundary (firewall rules).If people identify with an online location, instead of an amorphous
brand maybe they'll take pride in the upkeep and so on.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?