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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
I'm going to answer an obvious question that might not immediately materialize in everyone's minds:
Well if social status doesn't matter, what does?
Connection.
Community cannot exist without connection.
Learning can happen without it, but only from experience. Even an extremely weak tie (e.g., reading something that someone else wrote) is still a connection. After all, how many people have favorite authors?
Connection does not imply hierarchies. A decentralized mesh of nodes might form a graph that can be studied, but there is no axis to measure quality on.
Sure, some connections might be closer than others.
Yeah, some people might have more or fewer than others.
But those connections, and the people you share them with? That's what you should care about.
The gay furrry with a blog that talks about applied cryptography is but one among ~8 billion.