Very interesting post! We started building COI/COP in 1999 - so much change and so little in many ways. We are asking the same kind of questions at ethosvo.org now as we embark on another community building projects. In some ways it is back to the what comes first a chicken or the egg question. Does a body of interest/practice exist that brings people together in some ways (football match, dungeons and dragons or a Git repo, or extinction rebellion event). Tech can facilitate, enable and to a certain extent drive our behaviour. You mentioned the filter bubble in LI and FB - I think we all are tired of those platforms that serve us up with rubbish click-bait. I also think that DAO projects will get more primetime - but there are significant barriers to entry. For example I have tried to use theHive DAO - which is great but there are barriers. So meanwhile FB/LI/Discord get millions of users and many of the other platforms are niche and have barriers. I am new to discourse and was excited to see some of it’s functions / metric. Then again I saw that “threaded” was a new feature and so thought OMG really. Perhaps Slack is the way to go in certain cicumstances. Then again like all these things - their new owners will have other ideas on what to do with all those juicy users. What are your thoughts about mastason?
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