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I agree.

I guess one problem of the internet is that it's main communities became way too big (facebook, instagram, twitter and others).

Also they're designed to attract people to themselves.

Now we can't really define someone just by knowing he's part of facebook and that's one of their weaknesses in my opinion.

Maybe having more smaller communities like this one will help defining identities and common interests for these communities.

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~maya wrote:

I wonder how small communities can stay distinctive enough to cohere. Aggressively opinionated aesthetics?

I wish that something like Nextdoor existed that was just a bulletin board / email list / what-have-you and didn't optimize for engagement. However they try to get people to engage tends to get them to fight.

~inquiry wrote:

I'm enjoying how online system minimalism turns out to be a halfway decent filter, such that people I'd probably not want to interact with anyway don't even make it through the gate of a place insufficiently belled and whistled for their tastes, i.e. to whom appearances seemingly far outweigh actual conceptual capital that's far closer to the mind metal.

I mean, okay, I get that "a picture is worth a thousand words". But it occurs to me I rarely want a thousand words - let alone thousands and thousands as tends to be the case in online places with appearances focus.

I just want to temporarily seemingly inhabit other minds from time to time, experience their perspective/surroundings.

Someone in these parts

(I think it was maybe ~dawn?)

even had me remembering the power of poetic brevity as a sort of words-only-driven tardis to get others such times/places.

(Of course... that reference is probably going to have me struggling to think other than of

Leela

the rest of the day... <coughs>)