[Karrot_Kream]

Its a fun concept but the community around it had a strong tendency to want to proselytize their values to you. I enjoyed playing around with it in the beginning but it introduced me to too many tech preachers each with their own similar but slightly different philosophies that they felt like I must know about.

It may have changed but that's what largely turned me off from it. I find other networking projects to have a less preachy mix of people.

[_Algernon_]

The selection effects of people seeking out something like this are probably intense, but that was also true for the early web, and is what people liked about the early web.

[Karrot_Kream]

> that was also true for the early web, and is what people liked about the early web

Depends. There were parts of the early web that were like this, sure, but there were definitely more, for lack of a better term, "schizo" parts of the early web. I mostly stuck around those parts. A friend I met online got really into some of those intentional community sites and we eventually drifted because it wasn't my thing.

Different networking projects have different cultures though so no skin off my back really. Live and let live and I'm glad the folks who want a community based around anarcho-socialist values have a place to vibe.