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Do you think we have lost a sense of community within the brony community?
Tuesday, 03-Jan-12 22:25:57 UTC from StatusNet iPhone- Scribus and Milo like this.
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@cabal I couldn't agree more to be honest.
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@cabal Not this again... We've had our ups and downs over the past months, but as a whole we are still strong. Even if we have slid, there's still more community here than a hay of a lot of other places. It's a new year, and it's time to stop looking back at how "everything used to be better" for the hundredth time and look upward and onward.
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@eaglehooves I posed the question because I watched a general assembly of Occupy protesters, and saw how much they were enjoying themselves.
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@cabal Hm. Between here, the Facebook Brony group I'm in, and the Ohio Forum I'm quite enjoying it, and the sense of community is still pretty high (Although, I'll admit RDN is the lowest of the three).
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@cabal I wouldn't say so. When it started, it seemed centered on /co/, which was 99.9% anonymous. That's not a community in my mind as there are no individuals. Nobody knew anybody else, and it was pure pony discussion, but that was it. Eventually, things developed - RDN, fimchan, ponibooru, !EqDawn, Synchtube, the whole scene. Many of these weren't anonymous; people picked handles, came to know each other. Friendships developed, but tensions also did. Not everyone gets along with everyone else. But that is part of a community. To keep it relatively short, I'd say that from the beginning, we've *gained* a sense of community more than lost it; just because it's not easy doesn't mean it's bad. But what the hell do I know?
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