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I'm curious about how you settled on the concept of "tiny internets" as opposed to LANs or some other tiny-by-definition type of network? Does your operational definition of internet consider the unique perspective of individual users joined with the content they interact with as "an internet?"

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I think LAN is too much of a prescriptive on "what constitutes" a tiny network. I like this values-oriented, slightly abstracted definition because things like the youtube comments section of a specific video, a single twitter thread or that one group chat where the unwritten rules involve sending memes, when all of you gather on the same restaurant menu website to decide what takeout to order all qualify as a "tiny internet"

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