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Finding Common Ground: Graded Communal Knowledge in Bluesky Starter Packs

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Communication is made possible by common ground---the unspoken knowledge that people share and presuppose of one another, whether that be online or offline. In his conception of common ground, Clark (1996) distinguishes between personal and communal common ground, and asserts that the latter is graded: the more community affiliations two people share, the more common ground they share as well. Social media research has invoked this mechanism to explain how users connect, but it has gone largely untested because community memberships are rarely visible and, where they are, they are coupled to u

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