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Communities = human search engines?
- Since community members joined slowly and stuck around, there was a lot of trust and shared context in the group. Every community had a different way of working, so there was a fair amount of friction preventing users from jumping around or “surfing” from project to project.
from Making is Show Business now by Alex Danco
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- Communities thrive because of their contributors. But, people only contribute to communities if they trust that their time and energy are going to be put to good use.
from Hard thing about communities by Peter Yuan Pan
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- Community means a lot of things to a lot of people. Whether it’s your local running group, a book club, your gym squad, family, or membership in an exclusive club, belonging to something is meaningful. Our identities, while obviously unique to us, are so shaped by the influence and power of community that it remains a biologically human need to hav... See more
from Build it and they will come - or will they? by Connection Engine
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- Communities thrive when they can own a topic in people’s minds and become the most efficient and trusted place to get an answer.
from The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage by David Spinks
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- High-quality access to information : social technologies that help people form high-quality opinions about important topics in an adversarial environment. I personally am bullish on prediction markets and Community Notes; you may have a different take on the solutions, but the point is that this topic is important.
from Against Choosing Your Political Allegiances Based on Who Is "Pro-Crypto" by Vitalik Buterin
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We need ways to filter, validate, and value large amounts of information. Traditionally, this has been limited to the wealthy in the form of “experts”
- community members should “feel a sense of belonging (membership), feel like you make a difference to the group and that the group makes a difference to you (influence), feel like your needs will be met by other group members (integration and fulfillment of needs), and feel that you share history, similar experiences, time, and space together (share... See more
from Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community. by Vox
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- Communities are becoming stronger because technology is doing a better job directing us to people with shared identities and shared interests. On Facebook, we needed our real-world friend graphs to form the foundation for our feeds. TikTok doesn’t need to know our friends; its algorithm quickly hones in on what content and which creators will most ... See more
from The Decade of Internet Communities by Rex Woodbury
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This was the overwhelming lesson of the early internet. It works because it mirrors the social interaction of real life, where social groups exclude people who don’t fit in. And it works because it distributes the task of policing the internet to a vast number of volunteers, who provide the free labor of keeping forums fun, because to them maintai
... See morefrom The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented by Noah Smith
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