Why Social Platforms Break Relationships That Should Survive

Framework note: This essay is an application of the role-arity diagnostic to social infrastructure. The platform forces a binary &mdash; connected or not &mdash; on a target with richer internal structure. That is arity-2 underspecification. The missing liminal tools are missing arity-3 features: criterion-governed selection over relationship states, with verdicts visible to both parties. See…