Date: 12026-02-17

Type: article

Tags: community, social, haraway

Source: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-are-not-fungible/

Communities aren’t just collections of people, they’re built over time through countless small acts of trust, shared history, and daily interactions. You can’t just move everyone to a new place or recreate the same online platform and expect the same bonds to form. The real value of a community is in the relationships themselves, and once disrupted, that network of connections can’t be exactly rebuilt. Every decision that uproots people (physically or digitally) has a cost that can’t be measured.