Dwindler

"These criteria inevitably have positive content. They enable confidence that the discourse will circulate along a real path, but they limit the extension of that path. Discourse addressed to a public seeks to extend its circulation—otherwise, the public dwindles to a group—yet the need to characterize the space of circulation means that it is simultaneously understood as having the content and differential belonging of a group, rather than simply being open to the infinite and unknowable potential of circulation among strangers. Reaching strangers is public discourse’s primary orientation, but to make those unknown strangers into a public it must locate them as a social entity. Public discourse circulates, but it does so in struggle with its own conditions."

-Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics

How lovely to have a group instead of a public. Dear reader, thank you for participating in my group.

If you began to lose faith in the midst of the above quotation, here's a more hopeful one from the same tome:

"I cannot say in advance what romping will feel like in my public of She-Romps."