Someone actually said "we disapprove of you enough to bring social pressure to bear." Does that ever work? Really?
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Replying to @lyrra_sark
I'm reminded a lot of similar recent issues in other tech domains. "It's ok if you feel unwelcome here... we don't like your kind."
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Replying to @lyrra_sark
And you know what? That's ok. Honestly. Tribes manage themselves. I just wish they'd be less pretentious about what inclusion means.
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Replying to @lyrra_sark @datawench
I just wish everyone would be honest: that they're not communities but exclusionary clubs, just like those rich white guys still have
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Replying to @lyrra_sark @datawench
I don't think that's the case, but I think communities are created by outside forces, by people being forced to live together
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Replying to @ColumPaget @datawench
i wonder if maybe this is actually a distinction between communities of thingness and communities of thereness (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/06/06/thingness-and-thereness/ …)
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it feels very intuitively truthy that communities of thereness are socially diverse and communities of thingness are socially uniform
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and the violence in the geek/mop/sociopath cycle consists in the realignment as thereness is burned to generate thingness
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Replying to @chaosprime @datawench
I largely agree, except that I don't find communities of thingness to actually be communities: they're cults
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