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> This left me wondering if there is enough demand for smaller social networks with very limited visibility that can foster rich and insightful discussions (although this sounds like forums from the nineties). And if it's possible to keep the sales people away, or at least invite-only. You can't keep sales people a.k.a phonies away it will always happen. Every underground subculture gets appropriated as soon as even…
Your comment reminds me of the video "All My Homies Hate Skrillex - A Story About What Happened with Dubstep (Reupload)". It's a rant about how the original Dubstep was created and developed from the passion and use of a minimalistic approach in the underground London club scene. Then it became the mainstream phenomenon, and people who didn't care about the original ideas got all the population and credit. [0] https:…
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
We can even get a little more meta and observe how this type of essay itself goes through the very same process and you end up with:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9IucBIoCzc0
It always happens, without fail, for every genre and subculture. We can only embrace the ephemeral.