Focused on new structures of kinship and uniting people around shared values of empathy and care, community platforms are increasingly integrating wellbeing, sustainability and social justice into their core. 🧵
If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself.
The lesson is simply: speak up .
It's OK to slip into advocacy now and then, so long as you do it tastefully. If it sounds high- or heavy-handed — or anything like nagging — you're doing it wrong. Just explain why you care about a particular value. The goal... See more
knowledge shared between friends, while relatively unknown to the rest of the world, anchors many of the strongest social bonds.
strong communities tend to feature mutual commitments and common moral obligations, or relatedly, a sense of shared fate
How One Student Built a Study Discord Community With 150K Members in 15 Months