I get the impression that a lot of interesting community convening is happening on Discord/Slack, but I haven't figured out how to engage with those mediums without producing scattered mind. Any tips/insights? (beyond obvious—"disable notifs, unread dots, timebox" etc)
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I notice that if I aggressively timebox Discord/Slack, and open only once a day or two, like email, then I don't get the feel of building a connection with a community at all. This is different from Twitter / mailing lists / forums, where the medium's more OK with infrequency.
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As we've discussed I get wonderful community-building utils from Twitter! But I think I'm missing the space of convening interactions which rely on a high-shared-context, semi-private environment.
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I’m in the same boat. I either ignore it and do other stuff or engage and get constantly distracted
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Only go in with a specific intention. By setting the intention it’ll prime your automatic processes to be more selective to observe data related/in support of that intention.
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Yes, I think this works well for avoiding distraction/scattering, but seems to miss out on the community-building energy, which (apparently?) relies on liveness.
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I notice that if I aggressively timebox Discord/Slack, and open only once a day or two, like email, then I don't get the feel of building a connection with a community at all. This is different from Twitter / mailing lists / forums, where the medium's more OK with infrequency.
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I find a lot of the action is in finding one with a good member/channel ratio. Too few people and it's just dead, too many and it's a torrent. And/or finding channels on a larger server that moves at a manageable pace.
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It may be best to treat those spaces as social spaces where you work on connections with humans.
Rather than another inbox.
The inbox aspect can probably be automated — I need to do some more experiments with cross posting of things that contain links, at least.
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social space without a heavy touch or thought like forums, async is supported but you really need to *be there*. unlike twitter it’s hard to follow the chain of events, one timeline for all the channels makes it less ‘scattered’?
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