The number of successful large scale communities out there is quite small. … So maybe, just maybe, that’s not what the web is built for. Maybe it’s built for small scale communities. Maybe we need to reframe the way we think about this stuff and worry less about ‘scalability.’
This is one of the most alluring traps of digital development – the promise of creating something that billions around the world *could* use. It seduces so many, leaving opportunities to create deep, profound relationships with smaller communities all too often ignored. I’ve seen this time and time again on the local (or if you, hyperlocal) level – people forsaking the physical communities they live in, and the possibility of building tools to service those communities, in the (often futile) hope of forging larger communities comprised of people from every corner of the universe.
(quote via fascinated:betaworks:marco:dalasverdugo)
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