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Tom Critchlow

3 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read

@sariazout

Just a really great piece from @sariazout on the coming era of community knowledge networks: sariazout.substack.com/p/check-your-p…

What will this future look like?

Discord x Arena?
Slack x Roam?
Blogs x Wikis?

I think blogs may be a key missing ingredient - today there's still no good way to collaborate on the internet in public.

All the good collaboration is separated from publishing:
Google Docs
Figma
Notion

They're all great at collab but lacking in the power of publishing

As someone who maintains a substack, a tinyletter, a blog, a wiki and a discord community I really wish there was a better memory or knowledge base that could be built *inside* these tools, not adjacent to them

@sariazout

Anyway - hyped for whatever @sariazout is cooking up and hyped for a new era of community knowledge networks.

@sariazout

One more - maybe we need someone to do for wikis what substack did for email....

But for that to happen we'll need a reference point.

Substack only got built cos of Ben Thompson
Community Knowledge Platform will only get built cos of folks like @sariazout paving the way.

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