WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: When is a "community" not really a community?

I think about this a lot!

Hi pals,

First off, we have a lot of new paid subscribers in our community this week! Hello and thank you! I think you’ll discover that this is a pretty exceptional space— warm and curious and funny and interesting. How is that possible, on the Internet in 2025? I don’t know, but I thank my lucky stars every day for you all.

This space, specifically, is a…