Fragmentation of community can feel like it sucks but it was also the fun of the early web to seek and find the pockets of communities that resonated with you.

Fragmentation of community can feel like it sucks but it was also the fun of the early web to seek and find the pockets of communities that resonated with you. So far, all social media platforms have come and gone or faded.. or dealt with remaining relevant with the early adopters and majority that eventually arrives. You can even go back before them to the instant messaging, forums, IRC and BBS years. Once organizing and connecting on a platform reaches whatever its zenith may be able to contain or not correct, it changes. There is always a new curve that emerges, the next curve. Where the masses are ready to adopt the next way of Connecting. As much as I miss the other communities that existed, new ones will come. Heck, one can even have a say in it and build what they need. Maybe it’s fediverse time. Maybe blockchain contracts will let me license and withdraw license to my content anywhere I publish it. I didn’t use Twitter for a decade and recently reconnected with it. Because I remained in a usage of learning from others it was fine to me to just follow others and topics that interest me and avoid following too much news, local, political, populist (on both sides of the spectrum) perspectives.