If we see instead that there could be a public square, a public space, that is not public in the sense of universally public, but only public in the sense of a local park. That is to say, the participants are people who either know each other or know a common friend. So that means it’s at most around 20,000 people or so. And so, in that Dunbar’s number square, we can have a public square that still preserves the contextual integrity, meaning that you will not face a random person nobody knows suddenly shouting at you and trolling your conversation. And so, in this local context, people can speak more freely and enjoy association with people who are very different from them, because they feel safe in associating, because at least you have a common friend, right?

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