Creating a structure for regular planned activities can go a long way toward helping a transient burst of enthusiasm turn into a sustained social experience. It's good to set up spaces, but may also be important to e.g. set up weekly social THINGS even if it's literally nothing more than an e.g. Saturday chat thread or a show-and-tell newsletter or etc.
I like how much tilde folks have been excited and excitable about projects and stuff, but those projects can easily end up being solitary or fizzling out in isolation and the enthusiasm with them. Having actively supported non-project stuff to do together could make a difference.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 12:58 PM Tim H tim@hithlonde.com wrote:
I think having a place where there are active users of a smallish social group, where the rule is "be nice!" could go a long way.
I am already expecting I'll be in #IRC most of the time, and try to always actively reply to list questions and such, when appropriate.
From Northern CA
-Tim (https://tilde.club/~timotheus/)
On 9/16/19 12:45 PM, Jon Bell wrote:
Imagine a person struggling with something really heavy, like depression
or addiction. Imagine that one morning their friends manage to get them to watch a sunrise. It’s amazing. Life changing.
But you can’t see sunrises all the time. And even if you could, the
novelty would wear off. As the morning wears on, and the memory of the sunrise fades, this person goes back to their normal life. Where they’re struggling again.
Many (all?) of us are overwhelmed and disheartened by today’s internet.
So here’s a question to the group, as a die hard tildee. How can we make something like this last longer than a sunrise?
Love from New Zealand, Jon