Eli Pariser
New_ PublicCommunities are not interchangeable or disposable. Break a network and some of those relationships, all that institutional knowledge, are gone forever.
@Daojoan writes eloquently on communities and digital displacement, and how Big Tech is addicted to this cycle of social destruction.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-are-not-fungible/
Communities are not fungible
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured