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I'm not sure how that implies that the term "online community" is an oxymoron. As I'm typing this comment I'm watching some friends in a Discord server engaging
by ranger207 3y ago
I'm not sure how that implies that the term "online community" is an oxymoron. As I'm typing this comment I'm watching some friends in a Discord server engaging in a passionate discussion with varying viewpoints on an issue close to them. I'd consider most of them good friends despite the fact that I haven't met half of them in real life. What makes that not a community?
- williamcotton 3y agoI said “feels like” not “is”. And you’ve also qualified your statement by saying you know half of these people in real life meaning it isn’t purely an online community. So how do you know these people? And how do those people know the people you don’t know? How did everyone meet? What’s the organizing factor around this particular Discord? Is it purely topical and open to the internet at large or is it an extension of a friend group that met offline?