If You Reward Volume, You Get Noise!!

Kirsten and Blake look in to how The Blossom Society are thinking about group chats and group chat fatigue. This episode audits group chat fatigue as a design problem, not a personal failure. Using an internal strategy stack from The Blossom Society (TBS) — including a consulting psychologist’s report — we unpack “social attentional demand”, context reconstruction, and why newcomers get crushed by belonging pressure and the “status treadmill”. Then we turn it practical: a coping playbook built around Pace, Purpose, Position, and Sense-making (including the 30-message catch-up limit). Finally, we zoom out to platform solutions: front-gate announcements, default-muted timeboxed chats, slow chats, weekly digests, and rewarding conduct over volume — all framed as “consent with attention”. (Education only, not therapy.)