Chris Best

I think...

Yeah, places... The aspiration I would have for Substack is twofold here.

The first is what you're saying.

Yes, I think the, you know, there's these communities.

When you have these, like, within the city, you have, like, the space.

Each Substack has its own world.

There's its own kind of community with walls.

It has its own identity, its own world.

And that, like, comment section, people make friends there.

People get to know each other.

You know, people...

become friends in real life because of somebody they met in the blog comments.

Like that's a thing that increasingly happens.

And so I think, you know, part of it is, yeah, creating the part of the digital world that actually lets you live and interact in a human way and doesn't reduce you to a

passive consumer, but lets you be part of a community and act back.

That's really important.

I also think, you know, that third phase, like the internet becomes real life, right?

I've been to meetups that sub stackers have, and you'll have somebody that's, that's a, you know, a blogger.

And they show up at a bar in San Francisco and there's 100 people there treating them like a fucking rock star.

And you have this like this real set of people that have formed around this shared idea or interest or community.