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I think it's still pretty cheap to create a community, if you're not trying to get every person on earth to join.

• jrockway 16y ago
  But the culture of doing so has gone away. No company or school would make their own social networking forum; everyone just uses Facebook or Twitter. Things were not always like that, though.
  • nostrademons 16y ago
    Remember Geocities? And Usenet before that? And Prodigy or Compuserve before that? These things tend to move in waves. Somebody comes up with a great new communications platform, and everyone abandons their custom solutions for it. Then the technology behind that platform becomes commoditized, the knowledge becomes widespread, and people start coming up with small scale custom solutions again. Then one of those custom solutions decides it wants to be big, generalizes it's platform, people flock to it, and the cycle starts over again. Give it a couple years. I bet we'll see people creating their own social networks again, in some nearly unrecognizable form.
    • jrockway 16y ago
      I hope!