🌻 Community Building

Communities

• A Prehistory of DAOs
• Brick By Brick: A free guide to building awesome communities
• What makes a community?
• How to build a self-sustaining web3 community
• Coordination Across Social Distance

small communities require an organiser to keep things going

• Best practices for community managers
• Four types of open source communities
• Of the community, not above the community
• How to DAO 2021: Onboarding as Wayfinding
• orbit-model
• Principles of DAO cooperation
• What We Can Learn from Decentralized Community Building

Leveraging friend communities

• Squad Wealth
• Friend groups

"A group of friends who enjoy each others' company ought to build something together."

"Let's buy a bar together."

"Let's buy land and move to the country and raise our kids together."

• How to build a Fren Movement

"To have a good networking is essential to face the challenges of our days. Alone we are nothing."

• Webring

  only around 10% to 20% of people in a given community will end up being regulars

Community lore

Local memes, shared memories. This stuff at large scale makes nations.

• also see Memetics, Psyops
• The Lore Zone by Other Internet
• Why Losing Bonds Sports Fans

Communities centered around holding a specific token are a lot like sports fans.

Problems

• The (3,3) mindset by Cobie
• Groups never admit failure
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29488641
• Toxicity
  • Toxic Positivity Is Doing More Harm Than Good
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25803568
  • Being toxic is not constructive criticism by Github Original Series

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taken from How to DAO 2021: Onboarding as Wayfinding