The Melancholy of Subculture Society · Gwern.net

Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad. If you crack open some of the mustier books about the Internet—you know the ones I’m talking about, the ones which invoke Roland Barthes and discuss the sexual transgressing of MUDs—one of the few still relevant criticisms is the concern that the Internet by uniting small groups will divide larger ones. Surfing Alo

[murashit]

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6585711

[shiumachi]

日本がソフト技術に貢献していないという話。rubyぐらいじゃないかなどと書いてある一方で、東方やMMDを例に上げて同人業界にもFLOSSが全くないと批判しているのが興味深い