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Wahaha wrote

Reply to comment by HMTg927 in The Quest for Better Online Communities by HMTg927

So you could follow someone who doesn't follow you and never get a reply back?

Reddit already was a shot at this problem with all the subreddits and we see how that scaled.

Also, you need to shoot lower than Dunbar, since that includes people you socialize with in RL. (Family, work, friends)

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HMTg927 OP wrote

Yes, you could follow someone who is not following you, but you could always adjust who you are following. Being limited to 150 would cause you to naturally think about whether you should remove people from your "follow" list who are perhaps not interested in following you. When you have a limited number of slots you will be more careful with them than if you have, say, 1000 slots.

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Wahaha wrote

It might work, but then all you do is create better filter bubbles around people.

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HMTg927 OP wrote

Well, you could look at it that way, but remember that a community is a filter bubble of sorts anyway. However, people who realize that would always have the option of reading the unblocked unfollowed feed. In other words, they could just read everything.

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