Social Warrens

Social Networking service designed around Warrens instead of Plazas (Warrens vs Plaza) to try and counter BigWorld Pathological patterns.

Combo of ideas

• teens are leaving Facebook for Group Messaging, they don't want to be public
• Social Networking is toxic because it's all positive-feedback-loop
• Social Networking is dangerously toxic because they're a near monopoly, so "censorship" is a bigger deal

But if people move to more closed Group Messaging (Semi-Social), will they lose the benefit of "meeting" new people/ideas (InterestGraph)? If the interest-specific posts of the group's members are invisible, a potential new member won't have those posts to respond to, demonstrating their fitness for membership.

Is there a model that is "private enough" and not interaction-steroids, but still allows/supports "discovery" of "interesting" people/ideas? Because that's huge.

cf 2010-11-08-SocialSoftwareCoolingLegibilityAndWarrensVsPlazas, Fediverse, Ecosystem of Networks, CozyWeb, Dark Forest

New opportunity for Situated Software?