@ada
Absolutely true! Communities on Twitter et al are an emergent phenomenon resulting from placing us in a unique social situation we simply never encounter in real life.
Microblogging positions itself as a huge global space where everyone can just be themselves and interact with each other naturally as it happens. Communities form on their own by proximity (i.e. following) with other people. I assume this simply has to happen because our lives always take place in varying limited contexts and we subconsciously try to replicate them so our minds understand how to handle this situation. That's probably why so many people seemingly forget that they never left the global context to begin with. It's the cause of many problems we're seeing here, and in fact I realized it's actually even worse. I plan to talk about it in a dedicated post.
Volpeon Extra
@areon@icy.wyvern.rip