Just because you use the same social media website as someone it doesn't follow that...
I feel similarly while also feeling empathetic for folk that feel differently/have different perspectives on this. Last few weeks have been rough for some people on This Website.
i really admire your work, but the solution to context collapse is never going to be to pedantically fuss over the word "community" when every social network uses that term to refer to its policies and norms.
I'm not pedantically fussing over anything or claiming that the broader usage of 'community' is wrong. I'm using the narrower, stronger sense of the word 'community' that some people seem to confuse with this broader, looser sense of the word. As in, 'the Cohost community' doesn't imply the same thing as a 'community' defined by serious material interdependence, etc.
okay. so . . . "community" guidelines, like the ones y'all also have in the fallen london forums for many many years, do have a lot of value. and that's the obvious-seeming way in which an opt-in group owned privately differs from the public square. that's the version of courtesy that people can absolutely feel should be done in context of other groups like this. so i think i'm missing something about what you're arguing for.
I'm pointing out that being on an online forum with someone is not the same thing as being their neighbor or their friend
"beyond what is expected among strangers in a public space" could mean a lot of very different norms, and deciding which ones apply is kind of what makes a "community" even if only a very loose one.
agree real hard w this
