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.

I am seeing the same thing with the Seamonkey browser.

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.

Wahaha,

I have some ideas about how to enable better communities on sites that are not small. One is to allow users to follow each other but limit the number of people each user can follow to 150 (Dunbar's number). I hope this will cause users to naturally clump together in small groups that will become their online social circle.

I have loved Dean Koontz since the 1980's, despite the fact that he uses the same formula in every book. I am glad to see he is still writing.

Thank you. Incognet does not seem to have a website. Strange.

Zenen,

I have no experience with Mailinabox, but I am curious about it. Perhaps I will try it one day. As the article points out, I do not really expect to be able to send email to Gmail or the other big email providers. They block essentially all email servers on residential Internet connections. If you want your email to get through to them, some people say to host your email on a server of a commercial hosting company. Sorry I can't be of more help.

I believe you Interdicted, but I have not been able to find anything that does more than give a vague sense that the government is orchestrating the death of Internet free speech from behind the scenes. Do you have any good references for exactly how they are doing it?