Idea: Cohesive communities are the villages of cyberspace, pluralistic sprawls like twitter/FB the cities. It's a difference in philosophy.
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The distinction being that villages have one to a few well defined centres (fora) while cities are just these large sprawling masses.
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Cities scale better, but are somewhat anonymous and amorphous: you can wander into a different part and just not know anybody anymore.
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But you can also always wander into the city and be welcome, while villages are suspicious of newcomers.
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