tomato
@tomatoxyz
A good question here is whether people that want to build and manage communities and incentivized to do so in any special way?
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Agree that this is a good question. Thanks for bringing it up. I'm one of those few people who actually does want to build and manage communities here. I've co-founded and stewarded two on FC in the past year: one in a private group chat, and one in a public channel. Both have gone well and have a core group of casters who love them, but they're also in limbo -- for two reasons: 1) lack of a sustainable economic model to support the time and labor required to bootstrap, and 2) no customizable spaces for us to carry on long-form discussions at our own (slow) pace. Good moderation is a job just like any other, and it requires a significant time commitment (as Dan acknowledges). Until we have good options for the two issues above, the two communities I mentioned will remain in limbo, since the mods/co-founders have to turn the bulk of our attention to paid work elsewhere.
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huugo
@huugo.eth
Are there any platforms in particular that you feel support longform and slow discourse effectively? I’m not suggesting this is the right model (it’s the opposite actually), but it’s been interesting to see how @sayangel has tweaked the typical feed to support a “live chat” type interface with @livecaster I wonder if there’s a mini app format that might do the opposite and give you some of what you’re looking for.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Good question. The Library at LessWrong comes to mind as one site that caters to deep-dive reading and commenting effectively. https://www.lesswrong.com/library I've been batting around ideas with @trigs and @wanderloots.eth in DCs about building a mini-app that could help propagate a curated selection of the group's long-form discussions via Obsidian pages, so we're definitely thinking along similar lines.
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