The art of starting a conversation that your community can actually keep going seems to be a dwindling one on the web that is so heavily focused on people talking about what they are consuming, which there isn’t really that much to say about.
The web that I miss these days revolved around interests and things we made, not just the presence of a group of people but the context of why those people came together to begin with, even if they also talked about other things.
I don’t find the context that come up on Facebook or Twitter or most other places these days to be all that interesting or capable of very much depth. In a lot of ways those things punish depth and encourage us to move onto the next thing that keeps the wheels turning. The lack of depth and the lack of “quality context” is something I’ve really been feeling a lot lately.