Hello friends!

There's something called the peter principle, 
where you're promoted until you're bad at your job.

I've been talking with a handful of tilde.club folks 
and I'm wondering how we might prevent what one person called 
"The peter principle of communities". They get big, 
they get less fun, full stop.

Here's a proposal.

I like the idea that we cap this server at a fixed number 
of users.

BUT

Then we just kick off another server with the same number 
of users.

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It's a bit like World of Warcraft - there are a bunch of 
people per server but it's not the whole world because that
would get cluttered. And this is better than WoW, bceause 
you'd see the same people online every day. It'd be more
like neighbors sharing a street together, which can 
foster real communities.

So that's my proposal. If this were a CMS we could have 
comments, or upvotes, or whatever. But if you think this
sounds good, or have other ideas, email me at jon@lot23.com 
(or mail jonbell at the command line) and let's talk about this!

The magic here is reproducible. But that magic can, and will, 
be overwhelmed if we accept too many people. So let's
try to design for that :)