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[kradeelav]

cannot tell if *I'm* getting more ornery / opinionated / argumentative due to Old Age(tm)

or if the mainstream internet is genuinely increasingly bubble-y and does the whole 'hammer down the oddball nails that stick out' more?

(or both?)

( i may have gotten into some mini skirmishes on a discord server or two >__> there was a dude that had some slightly --only slightly!-- heterodox thoughts on the indie web and some folks took it as "disrespect" when it was imo only a difference of opinions on [checks wrist] the server itself thinking it was a "community"??? i didn't even know the server thought of itself as one ... or felt like there was "respect(???)" owed to it... red flag imo! given they partially walked back the "disrespect" comment when i said "i don't see any?", just aaaaargh -

asdcvfbhjkl;;; jesus christ i hate that kind of insular echo chamber, gives me proto-ideology vibes. don't think i'll be staying there longer.

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[tei]

The increasing use of the word "community" to refer to a loose and completely unorganized collection of people who happen to have the same interest on the internet is so bizarre to me. And shitty, because it a) creates false standards, as clearly happened here, and b) waters down what "community" actually means. A community is not accidental! Community requires sustained effort and compromise and negotiation of what the community is and what's supposed to be acceptable there! If you have not had even an inkling of those kinds of negotiations, you are not in a community. Possibly you are in a discord server. Which is FINE, but is not the same thing.

[kradeelav]

gosh thank youuu - it's really nice to have some validation that I'm not the only one that feels oddly off at that community word being applied to something else that's very ill-fitting.

Trying to approach it from a good faith angle, maybe there was a group or smaller clique that *had* been talking more/longer/etc and operates more like a community (there were a few channels about a manifesto and some deal), but even in that light ... it should be straightforward that everyone not included in that smaller gang is going to feel the same.

Anyway, thank you for the comment. :)

[kradeelav]

100% to watering down what community as a concept had been generally meant. it reminds me in a weird way of the similar language drift from 'squick' as a very, very useful word for any kind of trope that somebody doesn't want to interact with to... 'portraying x fictional trope is always morally wrong' - conflating personal feelings with what used to be more of a nuanced territory.

oh well, I suppose that's partially why we're here on dreamwidth :P