We've all read @Meaningness on atomization but I think we need more of it
Specifically intertemporal atomization
Why are people restricting themselves to extent modes?
Recreate meaning from long-extinct mores or invent wholly new meanings centuries before their time
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it's, uh, pretty actively promoting clannish exclusionary behavior in hobbies and promotes viewing any newcomers as potential threats, which seems kind of bad tbh -- kind of an express ticket to the Model Train ghetto for any community.
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Well, there’s a tradeoff there. For a subculture to remain creative, it has to avoid appropriation and dilution, and too-rapud growth. Otoh, it also has to avoid narrowing and cliquishness. I tried to express both dangers in the discussion.
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