The Nicest Place Online? It Might Just Involve Identifying Sea Slugs

interesting read.

i looked up one of the civil micro-online communities they mentioned -- or state (Vermont) full of micro-communities?

https://frontporchforum.com/ (looks like Ruby/Rails/Turbolinks)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Porch_Forum

How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18129437/front-porch-foru...