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.https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Intellectuals-Create-a/234984 …
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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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Replying to @vgr
But publics are so much harder to control! This makes them less attractive to many of the people in the position to make such a choice
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Replying to @devonzuegel
That’s like choosing a video game car over a real one because it’s safer to drive. Unfortunately it doesn’t get you anywhere.
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