Internet Culture and Community with Fadeke Adegbuyi
Examining the profound implications of culture and community being unbundled from geography.
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🎧 Episode #12 | Internet Culture and Community with Fadeke Adegbuyi
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Fadeke Adegbuyi is a self-described “tech optimist” and creator of Cybernaut — a newsletter that explores the wide-ranging and sometimes “weird” communities and cultures of the Internet.
Like the future of work, culture and community have been unbundled from geography. Citizens of the Internet are forming new cultural movements online, which gain early traction in one corner of the Internet before expanding to other parts of the web. Sometimes they even spill offline into the physical world.
We’re thrilled to welcome Fadeke into The Deep End as she has written some of the most interesting long-form expositions on niche internet communities that are hard to understand from the outside. An example of this is the “Study Web”, which she describes as a, “a vast, interconnected network of study-focused content and gathering spaces for students that spans platforms, disciplines, age groups, and countries.”
In our conversation today, we dive deep into what it takes for these online cultures to emerge, opportunities for creators, web3, whether legacy social media platforms will be able to keep up, and much much more.
Fadeke’s newsletter Cybernaut is a part of the Every writing collective started by Nathan Baschez, a On Deck alum from the very first cohort of our Founder’s Fellowship.
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Links for the episode:
Fadeke on Twitter: @fadeke_adegbuyi
Coconut Mall (10 hour looping Mario Kart Wii song — popular in the Study Web)
Second Life: First They Got Sick, Then They Moved Into a Virtual Utopia
Mentioned podcast episode: How Packy McCormick plays the Great Online Game
Notes from the On Deck universe:
We just announced and opened applications for have opened for On Deck Deep Tech (ODDT). For an inside look, read about ODF/ODH fellow Madison Campbell’s On Deck experience. Coincidentally, her startup was backed by Bradley Tusk who recently joined us on the podcast.
On Deck has is officially expanding to Canada and is led by none other than Yashar Nejati, and ODF4 alum. Check out the blog post and the first batch of founding fellows. 🇨🇦
- Julian Weisser, Editor in Chief
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