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>Don't you think everyone speaking the same language would promote flourishing in human creativity?

Not necessarily. Sometimes creativity may flourish better if developed independently without common influences.

>the internet

Websites could be analogous to language in this case. Why use hacker news when you could use twitter or reddit? Independent subgroups can produce more interesting or unique discussion.




> Independent subgroups can produce more interesting or unique discussion.

Right but the point is that all of these independent subgroups use the same protocols to communicate (i.e. web standards). Anyone who has a client that can understand these is able to interact with the entire internet. As we can see, standardizing protocols does not limit the ideas which can be expressed over those protocols.


I guess it depends where you consider the separation. Even among the web, people don't only post in one language. And among the English-speaking web, Reddit has absorbed forums almost entirely which I would consider to be a negative.




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