# Designing Subgroups in Social Networks

Source: https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1618294904538685446
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Designing-Subgroups-in-Social-Networks?index=0x647085ce513ad9f2a28c13cd9fa8f18923e5e2eeade96739dc641bce64a7da95a171192f
Submitted by tim on 2023-05-26 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

There is a tendency for app designers to create layers & subgroups to deal with complexity:
Mastodon attempts this with usernames—which have 2 parts.

For every part of your app that you fragment, expect to increase your app’s overall probability of failure by 50%.