Metcalfe's law does not apply to commoning

Flancian asked:

commoning probably scales with Metcalfe's law, as it's a social activity?

I replied:

• Re: Metcalfe's law - hmm interesting. I feel like commoning tends to prefer federation. So keeping groups small in a sense, but then connecting these smaller groups. Commoning maybe works best scaling out rather than scaling up.
• E.g. Rely on Heterarchy and Rely on Distributed Structures patterns
• I almost feel like the larger an individual commons gets, the more it tends towards tragedy. Or at least the governance system has to get much more robust.
• Might be wrong there though.