Innis

They look at a community and see a user base. A metric. A number that goes up or down. They migrate the number to a new database and expect it to keep breathing. LiveJournal. Vine. Twitter. Same experiment, same result. What made those people more than a mailing list was distributed across every member in the form of trust built over time through ten thousand transactions nobody recorded. No API call retrieves it. The planner cannot gather it because it was never in a form that could be gathered.