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Whoever can recreate this community feeling is going to be rich. Why did people spend so much time in specific phpbb forums? Maybe the problem is that there are

by baby 1y ago

Whoever can recreate this community feeling is going to be rich. Why did people spend so much time in specific phpbb forums? Maybe the problem is that there are too many communities out there now and so people just give up because you're in all of them and you're part of none of them at the same time?

chad_c 1y ago
I’m sure an anthropologist can clarify, but once a community reaches a certain size, it seems that emergent properties take over.
darth_aardvark 1y ago
Discord servers are the closest. People do build up friendships, relationships, enemyships, and a public persona / reputation within a Discord server.
- sneak 1y ago
  Discord is centralized, heavily censored, and surveilled, so it can’t serve this purpose for many communities (such as most of the ones in which I participate).
- jonwinstanley 1y ago
  My limited experience with discord was either no activity at all, or so much activity it’s hard to follow what’s going on. I suppose I never found the right place
sneak 1y ago
They did, and it’s called Reddit. Then it got enshittified.
vjk800 1y ago
Communities don't scale. This is the reason why nobody has done and why you couldn't get rich forming communities. Communities are handcrafted to accommodate the unique personalities of the people involved. Communities involve activities where a handful of people can socialize and bond. A service with a million users can never become a community because our social/grouping instincts don't work on that scale. A community should always be a few dozens of core people, with maybe a larger number of non-core people participating occasionally.
- meltyness 1y ago
  When they establish personality archetypes and roles bonds form readily. That's like, the purpose of roles in an organization.
goosejuice 1y ago
Indeed, I think the size of the internet these days is partly the problem. The community in GameSpy and Zone were super small from my memory. We had crappy websites that tracked singles and team ladders. Then Steam came along.
notachatbot123 1y ago
If their goal is becoming rich, then this is doomed from the very start. How would it be monetized? Ads? Great, then you have no incentive to actually build a healthy community. Signup fee? Not going to work, way too much of a barrier.

by baby 1y ago

chad_c 1y ago

I’m sure an anthropologist can clarify, but once a community reaches a certain size, it seems that emergent properties take over.

darth_aardvark 1y ago

Discord servers are the closest. People do build up friendships, relationships, enemyships, and a public persona / reputation within a Discord server.

sneak 1y ago
Discord is centralized, heavily censored, and surveilled, so it can’t serve this purpose for many communities (such as most of the ones in which I participate).
jonwinstanley 1y ago
My limited experience with discord was either no activity at all, or so much activity it’s hard to follow what’s going on. I suppose I never found the right place

sneak 1y ago

They did, and it’s called Reddit. Then it got enshittified.

vjk800 1y ago

Communities don't scale. This is the reason why nobody has done and why you couldn't get rich forming communities. Communities are handcrafted to accommodate the unique personalities of the people involved. Communities involve activities where a handful of people can socialize and bond. A service with a million users can never become a community because our social/grouping instincts don't work on that scale. A community should always be a few dozens of core people, with maybe a larger number of non-core people participating occasionally.

meltyness 1y ago
When they establish personality archetypes and roles bonds form readily. That's like, the purpose of roles in an organization.

goosejuice 1y ago

Indeed, I think the size of the internet these days is partly the problem. The community in GameSpy and Zone were super small from my memory. We had crappy websites that tracked singles and team ladders. Then Steam came along.

notachatbot123 1y ago

If their goal is becoming rich, then this is doomed from the very start. How would it be monetized? Ads? Great, then you have no incentive to actually build a healthy community. Signup fee? Not going to work, way too much of a barrier.