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I think the "canceling" is too extreme, but the idea of limiting the number of people can follow / be followed by seems interesting, especially in the context of Dunbar's number [0] where a person could only really maintain ~150 connections.

Users would then need to decide who's more important to their feed, their best friend's sister or Justin Bieber. It may lead to interesting social dynamics in the same way that Twitters 140-character restriction created new discourse dynamics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number



People would just create multiple accounts.

No matter how high you build the wall, someone will always bring a taller ladder.


Maybe make it cost money to start an account, and you can only follow x00 people whereas it takes x000 to get.. "dissipated"




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