The ways in which we are ‘more connected’ are only quantitative, not qualitative. If you have 1000 people on your Facebook ‘friends’ list, are you ‘more connected’ than the person who only talks to two people, but one of them is their partner/spouse and the other is someone who they’d trust to move a corpse?
Though, what you are talking about there is community. It can be formed around almost anything. Why not a love for a niche writing system? There is an elianscript comm here on Lemmy. Why not one for Gregg?
On the practical side, is there a good way to digitally transmit Gregg? It was meant to be handwritten, which all the lowest-common-denominator technologies that we use most often can have some trouble with.
The ways in which we are ‘more connected’ are only quantitative, not qualitative. If you have 1000 people on your Facebook ‘friends’ list, are you ‘more connected’ than the person who only talks to two people, but one of them is their partner/spouse and the other is someone who they’d trust to move a corpse?
Though, what you are talking about there is community. It can be formed around almost anything. Why not a love for a niche writing system? There is an elianscript comm here on Lemmy. Why not one for Gregg?
On the practical side, is there a good way to digitally transmit Gregg? It was meant to be handwritten, which all the lowest-common-denominator technologies that we use most often can have some trouble with.