The majority of people believe communities come together due to significant events.
I don't often think of that anymore.
Typically the process is much quieter. Each day people start to look into the same spots. Shared references are formed in small groups. Some names are used more than once. Randomness is replaced by continuity in conversations.
What remains striking to me is that it is very easy to miss the exact moment when a network forms its own habits.
But the peculiar thing is that it appears to be quite plain on the outside.
People who are the same are talking to each other again. There are some talks that don't go away completely. New participants come on, but they don't begin at zero, but instead have some context to carry along and continue in the direction of the existing participants.
I feel that this is the more interesting thing going on around OpenLedger.
Not for functions.
Repeated interaction = behavior change.
It's small, but it's a routine and that's how the gravity of an ecosystem starts. Someone begins to use it as if it were a place they go to from time to time, and then begins to subconsciously make part of their online rhythm around it.
Perhaps that's where things get different.
There is a competition for attention between products.
People are subtly coached to return by living systems.
