Right, the unifying thing there is basically about community size. The same thing happens offline. The fact that you had a highly educated user base made a difference too. Early internet users either at a university or affluent and interested enough to pay a lot of money for that use (pre-flat rate AOL.)

A lot of the challenges today are related to community size. Also, a lot of the problems are either solvable or already solved, but just relate to platforms wanting maximum user growth/monetization so they disregard those early learned lessons. Just take a look at the stuff Randall Farmer has written. These are lessons dating back to easy online communities in the 1980s.