Newcomers can create a community community design.
realNuun We’ve been working hard to grow our Community service and it’s going well, but I wonder if Number of Dunbars constraints make it impossible to scale around a single community when you want to scale indefinitely. However, I suddenly realized that it might be unreasonable to focus on a single community when we want to scale it infinitely because of the Number of Dunbars constraint. It seems to me that we need a structure that allows users to create multiple communities on their own.
gdvonly There are a number of dampers, but to begin with, communities are basically newcomers can’t speak. So if you only have one community, the number of people you can talk to won’t increase all the time. Well, but the existing members are enjoying themselves, and they don’t want to bother with newcomers. So, rather than having existing members start a new community when they become aware of it, it might be better if the person can start their own community at the same time as new members join.
realNuun I see…! The “newcomers can’t speak up” problem is exactly what I’m feeling right now. We need to make it so that “newcomers can create a community” (in our service, it would be good to have influencers and their fans come together to create a community).
gdvonly Yes. That’s how all social services are designed in the first place! In an influencer-centered community, as is basically the case with the Liver app and others, there’s a crazy incentive for distributors to give a shit about new viewers. - side of well associated with a culture of greeting newcomers all over the place.
gdvonly > The person can start their own community as soon as they enter a new one. Oh, here’s the thing, it may be a hurdle unless you can “easily bring in your existing network of real or other media”! In the first place, it’s more advantageous to have a social like that, but with something like 2chan, you start with ROM. So I hear that the experience of the reader is very important.
realNuun I see what you mean. I’m sure you spend most of your time on the “welcome first-timers” section of Iliam’s distribution. With our service, it will be like having X’s network as it is. A mechanism to gather potential serious users like ROM-only, certainly seems important.
gdvonly Yes, that’s right. I’m going to be ROMing over 90% of the time to begin with.
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