Online communities

[James R. Coplin]

I find that community groups that I used to participate in that first moved to forums and then to social media sites have pretty much all dried up and died. Social media site based groups are the worst. There it is less of a conversation and instead a quiet stream of conversation you are trying to hear over a vast background of noise.

Smaller email forums like the beloved bar are the only quiet corners around any longer for any sort of meaningful conversations. I’m not sure entirely where the particular nature of the intimacy lies but it definitely is there. Certainly, things like algorithms affecting visibility, liking etc, are part of it but none of them are explanative in total. It may simply be the small community size decoupled from any sort of steering that is the major part that keeps it alive.

James

> On Apr 23, 2019, at 3:36 AM, Jay Vaughan <ibisum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Man, the more I read articles like this:
> 
> https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rise-fall-internet-art-communities
> 
> .. the more I realise we dodged a bullet by keeping music-bar free.  ;)
> 
> j.
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