Trust has stopped scaling, and every organ is solving it locally

Assemble the week's separate stories into one column and they stop being separate. The unfiltered front page closes. Two hundred million people distribute themselves into servers of twelve. A major ad-blocking project publicly abandons its effort against the largest platform — and that item, at 440 points, drew 557 comments, the highest comment-to-point ratio on the page, which is the shape of a community arguing about a surrender rather than reporting one. Cultural writing circles obsessively a ...