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.