>Also, I’m sad whenever people look for an alternative place to post things. In my ideal (though likely unachievable) world, anyone could post anything to LessWrong and the site infrastructure would handle visibility perfectly so that things were only viewed by people wanted to see them (and in priority order of what they want to see).
This sounds nice but if taken far enough there’s a risk of fragmenting the site community into a bunch of partially overlapping sub-communities, a la the chaos of Twitter.
>Also, I’m sad whenever people look for an alternative place to post things. In my ideal (though likely unachievable) world, anyone could post anything to LessWrong and the site infrastructure would handle visibility perfectly so that things were only viewed by people wanted to see them (and in priority order of what they want to see).
This sounds nice but if taken far enough there’s a risk of fragmenting the site community into a bunch of partially overlapping sub-communities, a la the chaos of Twitter.