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indieweb:digital_gentrification [2026/09/23 14:52] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1indieweb:digital_gentrification [2026/10/23 14:54] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 ===== The Pattern ===== ===== The Pattern =====
  
-  - A community builds something over years — culture, norms, earned intimacy, accumulated goodwill+  - A community builds something over years: culture, norms, earned intimacy, accumulated goodwill
   - Newcomers arrive, drawn by what the community built   - Newcomers arrive, drawn by what the community built
   - The original ethic dissolves   - The original ethic dissolves
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 Physical gentrification raises costs and changes the social character of a place, displacing the communities that made it worth living in. Digital gentrification raises noise, shifts norms, and crowds out the people who built the thing. Physical gentrification raises costs and changes the social character of a place, displacing the communities that made it worth living in. Digital gentrification raises noise, shifts norms, and crowds out the people who built the thing.
  
-The mechanism differs — nobody is priced out of a forum in dollars — but the displacement of original community members and the dissolution of the founding ethic follow the same arc.+The mechanism differs (nobody is priced out of a forum in dollars) but the displacement of original community members and the dissolution of the founding ethic follow the same arc.
  
 ===== The Newcomer's Responsibility ===== ===== The Newcomer's Responsibility =====
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 ===== Connection to Land and Commons ===== ===== Connection to Land and Commons =====
  
-Digital gentrification maps onto older patterns of arrival-as-displacement — communities with established relationships to a space having that relationship overwritten by newcomers who arrive with more visibility or resources. The Commons framing matters: community-built spaces are a commons, and extractive participation is enclosure.+Digital gentrification maps onto older patterns of arrival-as-displacement: communities with established relationships to a space having that relationship overwritten by newcomers who arrive with more visibility or resources. The Commons framing matters: community-built spaces are a commons, and extractive participation is enclosure.
  
 ===== See Also ===== ===== See Also =====
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