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Hmmm hard to say. Most of the effects of me being affiliated with Rf that I’ve observed are on twitter itself. The people who discuss ribbonfarm here and are associated with its readership are, with a few exceptions, not the people who actually write or have written for it
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I’d say until ~2011 or so, ribbonfarm was open web, with comments/email/HN etc being social loci. 2011-14, Facebook was the most important social locus, where activity from meetups and refactor camp landed. 2014-2017 or so, Twitter was core. Now I think it’s messengers/slack.
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Toby’s right about Sarah. Her writing is unusually anchored in Twitter subcultures (UST, ingroup, weird sun, her old carcinisation crowd, a few NRx and adjacent crowds...) I don’t think my readership has ever had much coherence of that sort. Other contributors have been varied.
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