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- YouTube
youtube.comCommunity 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... See more
Emilie Kormienko • Build it and they will come - or will they?
Online Places with more Human than Algorithm:
• Tumblr: It’s "more about sharing art, culture, and fandom than individual status”
Finally, I felt like we need a space on the internet for creativity, art, and artists. The other social spaces on the internet have gone different directions. Twitter became a lot more about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, and Facebook became about weird people you went to school with saying weird things. Tumblr always had this
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If the web’s first promise was low cost, real-time connection, its second was community - anyone, anywhere, could find a place where they belong.