If you're not world-building
You're not doing anything

You're not world-building inside a Facebook group

This is not community
Not the real deal

That's someone else's property
Someone else's land

You have limited rights
#gameb

@rossdawson @hrheingold

Here's the recording of the show.
Well worth watching for some history if you're into online community-building.

Appreciating @hrheingold's insights as a very early pioneer.

And here's my 'show'.

Here I illustrate why digital freedom inevitably now is enmeshed & inseparable from our offline freedoms — especially in this moment we're all living through.

It comes down this:

Build or be built on.
Use the skills or lose them. https://twitter.com/antonjw/status/1263606611022450688?s=19

sometimes, someone just... plain does all the work for you...

much, much more elegantly https://twitter.com/justjordinjames/status/1263590683492798478?s=21

Facebook Groups et al trap us in cycles of pointless commenting.

Most will not use them intentionally enough to escape the platform's confines.

That inevitably leads to a narrow, restricted vision of the community, walled-in by its functional limitations https://twitter.com/Watski/status/1265694406914519045?s=19

These Mutual Aid groups will die very shortly, as no greater vision was possible within the confines of the chosen platform, no building took place to construct something lasting, and so no actual community capacity was created.

If communities are to achieve something lasting, they need to get off Facebook and other apps fairly quickly and start to build / mesh together something of their own.

There's no lasting community capacity created in frivolous activity.

It has to be intentional activity.

Social media apps are not built for intentional activity.