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Do you only want to hear from people like you? To only make your community with people like you?

by kixiQu 6y ago

NhanH 6y ago
A lot of time, yes. If I’m looking for movies recommendation, I would try to find people who are most similar to me. Also, no one is using Gemini exclusively, the web still exists
peteretep 6y ago
> from people like you What constitutes someone like me? I absolutely mostly want to hear from people with similar attributes to me, similar fundamental guiding principles about what makes someone good or bad, and so on, but I'd also like to hear from people with very different experiences to me. I don't think these are especially incompatible ideas
- kixiQu 6y ago
  Well, in this case, "someone like me" is enforced by technical abstruseness as meaning someone who knows their way around a shell prompt. That's value-neutral in of itself, but you can see how it ends up selecting for certain views on the world
dancek 6y ago
We can belong to many communities, and indeed we have many different facets or identities. That's what it's like to be human. Attending a chess club doesn't mean you cannot also hang out with tennis players. So yes, the small internet movement seems to be about esoteric technologies and only people interested in them will join. But I don't see that as exclusionary on a personal level. It's just a weird hobby.
ruined 6y ago
Community, even diverse community, requires commonality of some sort. Everyone has a few people they relate to a bit more than others, and that's valuable. Subcultures and esotericism are one way to find those people. And none of this means that everyone who fits must fall into whatever boring conformity you're imagining. Most people are nothing like me and i've definitely suffered for it. If you don't have that problem maybe you don't need to go looking for people like you.
II2II 6y ago
In a manner of speaking, yes. It is possible to have a community where people disagree, voice their disagreements in a civil manner, and try to understand the other side. Likewise, it is possible to have a community with a plurality of interests where people explore interests outside of their own. I suspect the size of the community, rather than exclusivity, is the driving factor. I have lived in small isolated towns a couple of times. These were by no means social utopias, yet I did find that people were more interested in the ideas of other people within their community. This is in stark contrast to the Internet where you look around for communities that reflect yourself, and that are more trigger happy when it comes to dissenters.

Do you only want to hear from people like you? To only make your community with people like you?

by kixiQu 6y ago

Do you only want to hear from people like you? To only make your community with people like you?

A lot of time, yes. If I’m looking for movies recommendation, I would try to find people who are most similar to me. Also, no one is using Gemini exclusively, the web still exists

peteretep 6y ago

> from people like you What constitutes someone like me? I absolutely mostly want to hear from people with similar attributes to me, similar fundamental guiding principles about what makes someone good or bad, and so on, but I'd also like to hear from people with very different experiences to me. I don't think these are especially incompatible ideas

kixiQu 6y ago
Well, in this case, "someone like me" is enforced by technical abstruseness as meaning someone who knows their way around a shell prompt. That's value-neutral in of itself, but you can see how it ends up selecting for certain views on the world

dancek 6y ago

We can belong to many communities, and indeed we have many different facets or identities. That's what it's like to be human. Attending a chess club doesn't mean you cannot also hang out with tennis players. So yes, the small internet movement seems to be about esoteric technologies and only people interested in them will join. But I don't see that as exclusionary on a personal level. It's just a weird hobby.

ruined 6y ago

Community, even diverse community, requires commonality of some sort. Everyone has a few people they relate to a bit more than others, and that's valuable. Subcultures and esotericism are one way to find those people. And none of this means that everyone who fits must fall into whatever boring conformity you're imagining. Most people are nothing like me and i've definitely suffered for it. If you don't have that problem maybe you don't need to go looking for people like you.

II2II 6y ago

In a manner of speaking, yes. It is possible to have a community where people disagree, voice their disagreements in a civil manner, and try to understand the other side. Likewise, it is possible to have a community with a plurality of interests where people explore interests outside of their own. I suspect the size of the community, rather than exclusivity, is the driving factor. I have lived in small isolated towns a couple of times. These were by no means social utopias, yet I did find that people were more interested in the ideas of other people within their community. This is in stark contrast to the Internet where you look around for communities that reflect yourself, and that are more trigger happy when it comes to dissenters.