Metcalfe’s law does not apply to commoning
[[Flancian]] asked:
[[commoning]] probably scales with [[Metcalfe’s law]], as it’s a social activity?
I replied:
- Re: Metcalfe’s law - hmm interesting. I feel like commoning tends to prefer [[federation]]. So keeping groups small in a sense, but then connecting these smaller groups. Commoning maybe works best scaling out rather than scaling up.
- E.g. [[Rely on Heterarchy]] and [[Rely on Distributed Structures]] patterns
- I almost feel like the larger an individual commons gets, the more it tends towards tragedy. Or at least the governance system has to get much more robust.
- Might be wrong there though.
Epistemic status
Type
: [[notion]]
Confidence
: 2
Gut feeling
: 5
Not too sure about this. Just a hunch. But feels worth exploring. It generally fits with my values of small things federating.