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What We Lose When Optimizing Community
“As organizers, let it be friction-ful or not cute. Let it be functional and clear but maybe ugly. As participants, let us widen our zone of comfort with organizations or groups who have ancient facebook pages or websites where you aren’t sure where you even put your e-mail address. Maybe we trust them more because they’ve managed to keep going in
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As more and more identity formation happens online, it’s is inevitable that most of it happens in private spaces. As we spend more and more time living in these spaces, it’s inevitable that their intentional shaping should become more important to us. As more and more internet-first communities choose to build the means for themselves to live, it i... See more
Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
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Gen Z and Millennials are seeking more IRL. High end social clubs are on the rise. Flip phones are back in. We want to spend more on experiences, less on stuff. Remote work is forcing everyone to seek in-person connection and community elsewhere.
Despite this, existing social clubs are struggling to survive and not e
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A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.
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