Thank you for the mention @hopehuggs.
I do think Communities / Local Comunities will mark a breakthrough point with the steem blockchain.
They will open massive doors for more mainstream adoption.
The tricky bit might be how well the infrastructure, and the existing steem residents, will adapt to and cope with the 'incomers'...
It was you @pennsif that inspired me to write this post. It will be a breakthrough I think for local communities and make Steemit more mainstream.
I guess with a lot a newcomers and these communities things could get quite cliquey.
Thank you @hopehuggs. Yes the potential for cliqueness is the one thing that worries me about the steemit inc proposed community structure.
Who is going to decide who runs each community?
Of course if you don't like how a community is run you can go off and set up your own!
That will not be so bad for a generic topic such as gardening, but in the context of a geographical community it might be rather confusing if the TownX has five different steem communities.
Will consensus be reached? Or will it need elections....
Slippery slopes might begin to appear.
I guess that will depend on the people that come to a certain extent. Steemit politics , not an area I want to delve into.
Indeed. Yes something I stay well away from.