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The Discourse Podcast

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The Discourse Podcast Hosted by Joan Westenberg The internet has a coordination problem. We built tools for connection and ended up with fragmentation. We built spaces for conversation and ended up with noise. Something went wrong, and a lot of smart people are trying to figure out what. The Discourse Podcast talks to the people working on it. Builders, researchers, community architects, and thinkers who are paying attention to how humans gather online and why it keeps breaking down. Each episode is a conversation about the state of the web, what healthy communities actually look like, and what it takes to get from here to something better. Hosted by writer and critic Joan Westenberg, produced by Discourse.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 3: Richard Millington

    Richard Millington sits down to dismantle the idea that community is something you can manufacture on a deadline. We get into why belonging is the whole game, what actually goes wrong when enterprises copy-paste community playbooks, and how influencers and OnlyFans models quietly rewrote what...

  2. Episode 2: Hawk

    What does it take to build an online community that actually lasts? In this conversation, I sit down with Hawk to talk about the evolution of digital communities - from the early days of forums to the algorithm-driven platforms we're stuck navigating today. We dig into why so many online spaces...

  3. Episode 1: Sam Saffron

    Sam Saffron co-founded Discourse over a decade ago because he thought internet forums had stopped getting better. In this episode, he talks about what's actually changed now that AI is inside the development loop, why he thinks most teams are misusing it, and how Discourse is building AI into...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Discourse Podcast Hosted by Joan Westenberg

The internet has a coordination problem. We built tools for connection and ended up with fragmentation. We built spaces for conversation and ended up with noise. Something went wrong, and a lot of smart people are trying to figure out what.

The Discourse Podcast talks to the people working on it. Builders, researchers, community architects, and thinkers who are paying attention to how humans gather online and why it keeps breaking down.

Each episode is a conversation about the state of the web, what healthy communities actually look like, and what it takes to get from here to something better.

Hosted by writer and critic Joan Westenberg, produced by Discourse.

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Discourse

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The Discourse Podcast Hosted by Joan Westenberg The internet has a coordination problem. We built tools for connection and ended up with fragmentation. We built spaces for conversation and ended up with noise. Something went wrong, and a lot of smart people are trying to figure out what. The...

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The Discourse Podcast is created and hosted by Discourse.
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