As a socialist I don't like the notion of personality cults and tech that encourages it. As example those of you familiar with streaming, usually Streamer's chat prohibits talk to other viewers, or discussion of non Stream subjects. Another example are sects formed around celebrities, vtubers with authoritharian control. So in one-to-many relation there is a Queen Bee, and every fan is replacable, disposable, brick in the wall. Fans, followers who donated and were loyal for years can be easily removed and replaced with new one. That's contrasts to 1-on-1 contact list concept, when you develop personal relationship, and you may hope to have the right to claim returns comparable to amount of your investments. And you being valued. Attention, communication, collaboration - is a limited finite resource.
One-to-many leads to poverty of minions, and enrichment of an Idol Queen Bee. Actually it's worse, because we are not bees and not living in hive and get nothing from such relations, not even sharing/passing genes.
1-on-1 tries to split and allocate resources in more balanced way across 2 subjects, avoiding emotional poverty of sharing it with few others.
2 Name: Anonymous2025-07-25 13:19
false dichotomy. ad-hoc distributed collaboration (lets call it several to many, few to many, or sevearal to few, idc) is also possible. but because it isn't part of our indoctrination under capital it's harder to imagine or think of.
As example those of you familiar with streaming, usually Streamer's chat prohibits talk to other viewers, or discussion of non Stream subjects.
Another example are sects formed around celebrities, vtubers with authoritharian control.
So in one-to-many relation there is a Queen Bee, and every fan is replacable, disposable, brick in the wall. Fans, followers who donated and were loyal for years can be easily removed and replaced with new one.
That's contrasts to 1-on-1 contact list concept, when you develop personal relationship, and you may hope to have the right to claim returns comparable to amount of your investments. And you being valued.
Attention, communication, collaboration - is a limited finite resource.
One-to-many leads to poverty of minions, and enrichment of an Idol Queen Bee. Actually it's worse, because we are not bees and not living in hive and get nothing from such relations, not even sharing/passing genes.
1-on-1 tries to split and allocate resources in more balanced way across 2 subjects, avoiding emotional poverty of sharing it with few others.