While I find the idea of many micro-communities compelling, I don't think that this is the direction things are going. Here's why: the Internet is extremely di

While I find the idea of many micro-communities compelling, I don't think that this is the direction things are going. Here's why: the Internet is extremely diverse as it is and overall makes for a bad user experience where people have to cognitively deal with many different (and disagreeing) interfaces, rules, quirks, web addresses, and so on. At the beginning this heterogeneity was seen as an advantage because the amount of easily accessible information was unparalleled. However, in the past few years it seems like most successful platforms (be it YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Amazon, Wikipedia, iOS, etc.) have done well because there was a consistent and one-stop shop experience throughout. There is still tons of room on many different verticals to improve and disruption to occur, but I wouldn't expect things to come full circle.