hit on the idea a while back that people who got their culture from sites like 4chan, SA, LW are best thought of as diaspora communities
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distinctive subpopulations present across the internet, easily recognizable, unable to fully acculturate to new environments, greater affinity for their culture-kin than for any other
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Isn't living in a filter bubble a very widespread human defect, no matter the culture? Same can be said for conservative religious people, programmers who insist Smalltalk is the best language ever, 9GAG-ers with their constant "forever alone" idiocies, and a bootload of others?
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it's not a filter bubble (restriction of input to that produced by ingroup)
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it's one operating in an open environment/mixed company, but their output marks them as belonging to a particular tribe
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and I mention those sites specifically because they seem to leave the strongest, most noticeable mark of any I can think of
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