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WhatsApp groups and online communities
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Hundreds of people in the group. Nobody knows who anyone is.
A list of phone numbers is not a community. Keep the chat exactly where it is. Give the people in it a door, and find out who you have.
Follow for announcements. Join to be in the directory. A steward answers.
The same people, with what they do and what they need attached. That is the only difference, and it changes everything about what the group is worth.
Nobody has to leave WhatsApp. The chat stays exactly where it is and carries on. What changes is that the group gets a door of its own, and the people who come through it say who they are.
Because a number in your phone never agreed to anything. People come through the door themselves and say what they want known, which is why the map is worth reading and why nobody ends up somewhere they did not choose to be.
Scattered across a dozen apps, a community is worth almost nothing to itself: the skills are all there and nobody can find them. Gathered in one place it becomes searchable, introducible and reachable, and every person who arrives makes it worth more to everybody already here. That is the whole argument for one address instead of twelve.
Keep the chat exactly where it is. Give the people in it a door, and find out who you have.
They ask, you say yes. The roster is yours and it fills itself as people arrive.
One tap to sign in, one screen, and you are in, with a Identity Page of your own.