Society · Dynamics
Linkfade
Connections weaken while the participants keep their individual capacities
Definition
Mechanism
Relations that carried interaction, access or support become less effective, although the connected participants can still perform the relevant activities on their own. The weakening is between participants, not in their individual capacities. Reduced traffic by agreement, or fewer messages needed after a shared convention, is not an instance.
Invariants
- A relation between participants weakens for the activity considered.
- The participants' relevant individual capacities are retained.
Risks
Failure modes
Sum of parts
collective capacity is judged by adding individual capacities.
Quiet read as weakening
deliberate quiet or low demand is taken as a weakened connection.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
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