Subcultures and “communities” are both annoyingly claustrophobic and fundamentally limited in how interesting they can get. If you want to make things actually interesting, level up and aim to catalyze a public.
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One reason I like mastodon is that it’s only the second social media product, after twitter, to even attempt to enable the creation of publics. Unlike communities, publics exist in the interstices of walled compounds rather than within them.
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