Some of Ello’s bets are already beginning to pay off.

The most obvious one, I suppose, is their putative process which says bigger is better. Having no limit on post size is a very good thing. Understand, of course, that I am a writer and will take whatever space I can get to scribble in. It therefore does not surprise me that I have produced some very long posts already. I see other natural writers doing the same thing.

But it is not just we who write for a living, or even for fun, that are shining here. Clearly, a lot of us who have migrated to Ello are very comfortable with a larger space in which to think out loud. Just scroll through your timeline and let your brain just see size. The posts are bigger, the photos are bigger, even the comments are bigger.

All of this “bigger” has given us tacit permission to be more free with our thoughts and to expand from a hundred or two characters into many times that. The result is clarity of thought. We are not just getting the end result of a series of thoughts here. We are getting the whole series, the history of how what used to be those hundred words went from a baby thought to a full-blown concept.

Better yet, the implied freedom to expound more fully makes us willing to take more chance in what we say. Plus, now we have room to fully support the larger thoughts we are having. I always liked that about forums; the posts and replies could be complete and thoughtful instead of compressed and rushed.

I have a feeling I will be learning a lot more here than I am used to in past social networks. ADN made things a little bit bigger. Ello has blown the roof off of size. We can have complete thoughts here, and our friends can compose complete replies. The result will be better understanding among we humans who congregate here. Contributing to human understanding is a big deal.

Thanks, Ello.