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> the community already exists, you just create a communication platform for it That gave me a minor epiphany, it flipped my understanding of communities and t

• gweinberg 7y ago
  Does it really though? The individuals with a common interest exist already of course, but if they don't meet in some common physical or virtual space, how is there a community?
  • wuliwong 7y ago
    I think this is interesting. Since the original comment was from a producthunt perspective, I was thinking that in that case there was a community. Maybe a strategy is that there is a community that communicates already but this communication is spread across various mediums and not efficient?
  • aewens 7y ago
    Depends on how you look at the word "community". One definition of the word, "a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals," can dictate that a community can exist among those who have not yet met, but are of the same community through a shared interests / goals.
  • vokep 7y ago
    There is a sort of proto community. A community that wants to be, but isn't because nobody started doing that yet. The point of it of course is that, if such a proto community doesn't exist, its going to be very difficult for a community to grow.