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when a particular discourse is going on, i feel there's basically an obligation to not discuss other things to distract from the conversation
one reason is the obvious that these things run on steam and taking away from that is anti-solidaristic. another is that there is some communal knowledge to be gained by a group of people having the same conversation.
not like "one part of the community catches up to other people that possess the knowledge" (although in many cases thats what it will look like), you'll also see people trying things out and seeing how they land, reassessing and revisiting existing experiences with new context, laying battle lines,

i also like that, in part because it's smaller, the pace of things is slower. there's more time to meditate on the discussion and having that pervade the air one breathes is pretty beneficial for progress