Why 150?

Every community here is capped at 150 members. That number isn't arbitrary.

The anthropologist Robin Dunbar found that roughly 150 is the ceiling on the number of stable, meaningful relationships a person can actually hold — the number of people you can know as people rather than as a crowd. Beyond it, names blur into faces, faces into strangers, and a group stops being a community and becomes an audience.

Seán names the loss of intimate connection as a precursor to hierarchy and corruption. When a group grows past the point where everyone can know everyone, someone has to manage it — and management, over time, becomes control. Scale invites the very captured institutions this project exists to walk away from.

So we cap at 150 on purpose. When a community fills, it doesn't expand — it seeds another. Growth comes from communities birthing communities, each one small enough that the people in it remain real to one another.

A person can belong to several communities. The cap protects the intimacy of each one.