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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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There’s always been two kinds of blogging, the community centric style (livejournal, tumblr, medium) and the freehold style (typepad, blogger, wordpress). Twitter has sort of become a community layer of the former style to the latter, as a bolt-on, since roughly threading/2014.
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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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