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Why online subcultures can form
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People too rare to meet in one town are one search apart once distance stops limiting who finds whom.
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Why subcultures break at scale
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The ranking brings in people who do not know the group's rules, faster than it can absorb them.
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One mechanism, both outcomes
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Easy discovery builds support groups and harmful groups alike — it is one property producing both.
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The defensible position on harmful groups
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Limit amplification rather than existence: stop recommending, do not stop allowing.
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