On Small Online Communities

Two blogs celebrating how small communities foster connection. First, Manuel Moreale:

Blogs with a handful of dedicated readers, forums with fewer than fifty users, group chats with a dozen participants. Those are success stories. Not becoming huge can and should be seen as a good thing.

We don’t need a million followers. And maybe we don’t need a thousand true fans. But we probably could use ten good internet friends to make our digital life better.

Second, Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg:

it’s not about how many views you have, how many likes, trying to max all your stats… sometimes a single connection to another human is all that matters.

The smaller the group, the closer and more impactful the connection.