Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the Internet Echo Chamber

Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by rmellow on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:48PM (#23851532)

In times of Covid, I've found that serendipity can be found in online parties - I'm specifically referring to https://spatial.chat (no affiliation). This is able to mimic in-person social interactions in a way that it's not 10 people speaking one at a time.

Instead, you can organically form smaller groups according to their camera/avatar X,Y position (volume is inverse to distance).

In these "parties" I can meet friends of friends, who I wouldn't normally meet by myself or online. There's enough social pressure to actually listen to someone I don't know that might end up being very interesting.

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by temporaryvector on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:56PM (#23853982)

>I'm specifically referring to https://spatial.chat

Kinda off topic, but I'm starting to see this kind of website design more frequently these days, just a big "Join" button (or something) without any information whatsoever about what is it I'm joining up for. I hate it and I don't know why anyone thinks it's a good idea.

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by rmellow on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:24PM (#23854239)

For whatever it's worth, I haven't gotten any sort of spam or followups from them. Haven't bothered to look for a ToS!

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by temporaryvector on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:06PM (#23854546)

The problem isn't so much signing up, the problem is that from their website, without signing up, I have no idea what their service does and what are it's features.

A small paragraph and maybe a screenshot would do wonders for my willingness to try their service. But I'm basically complaining for the sake of complaining because I dislike this trend.

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by mitch3x3 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:06AM (#23856269)

I had the exact same thought when I saw their website

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by ImaCake on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:13PM (#23853574)

>I'm specifically referring to https://spatial.chat

I am curious to know more about this for personal and professional reasons but am unwilling to give my email just to find out. Do they have an about page hidden somewhere? Hard to find information on these guys!

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by rmellow on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:23PM (#23854225)

Not sure. They only require the host to sign up - guests may join anonymously with the link.

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by xtiansimon on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:03AM (#23858108)

> "but am unwilling to give my email"

Curious--you have only one email? I've been keeping a junk email for the occasion when I want to look at something without divulging PII.

I thought this was the _normal_ way to navigate the wild wild www.

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Re:Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the In... by wporr on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:27PM (#23852128)

I didnt have time to talk about it, but I think that the COVID crisis could be helpful for maturing this part of the internet. Its not that I dont think its possible for serendipity to be found online, but that we still need to develop a framework that is able to mimic it well

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