It's a great idea in principle, but it requires some manual work, which most users aren't gonna bother with.

> it requires some manual work, which most users aren't gonna bother with

Dowsing a user's circles from their public information and Gmail inbox seems like a perfect task for AI.

	▲	echelon 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. Self-defining all of the semantic grouping metadata was too much onus on the user. Not everybody has the patience to curate and groom their social circle labels and memberships. That feels like a full time job. I spent way too much time stressing over how to define my "circles". It was not a good experience.

lokar 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think it’s about the effort needed. The basic idea is just too complex for most people.

	▲	alpinisme 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It would be easy to send a notification “you haven’t interacted with Sally in 6 months, so we’re removing her from your network. Click here to add her back” or something along those lines and nobody would be the least confused. They’d probably be annoyed often enough though.