I’ve been thinking about different sorts of internet communities, and how they can feel pretty different based on their primary medium. By “community” I mean a group you specifically choose to be part of, a group where you can recognize other “regulars”…a group that feels like a “place” that feels comfortable. Sometimes this is going to be a closed group of friends; other times it’s friends-of-friends that come and go; still others it’s people oriented around a common interest. But as far as text-based online media go, I think they fit into five main categories: Messaging, Chat Rooms, Livestream Chat, Comment Threads, and Forums.

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TLDR I’m (publicly) on the fediverse now (a.k.a. ActivityPub or Mastodon) as @jrose@belkadan.com.

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Twitter was

• a place where my shitposts started conversations (or at least joke threads), and where I could participate in conversations (or at least joke threads) on other people’s shitposts

• a comments section for my [other] blog that wasn’t on my blog, and a comments section for others’ blogs even if they don’t have one on their blog

• a place to learn about other cool people and projects through the people I already know, and a place for other people to learn about me and my projects through the people they already know

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