Question for developers of any kind here:
Do your online communities revolve around particular computer programs (or programming languages maybe) more than anything else?
I've always noticed this in the motion graphics community. The aggregation tends to be stronger around user groups of software more than around design or the industry in general, at least on the internet. Or maybe this is just a personal bias of mine, and if so I'd like to overcome it.
@mauro There are definitely communities for at least some programming languages that have very strong participation in the way you describe. I vaguely take part in the Rust one, and I know many of the people I work with also do.
There is also the free software movement, which associates much more around an ideological/political cause, so it's a bit of a counterexample. I'm pretty sure this is the largest thing that could be called a community among software developers, even if perhaps only a minority belong to it.
There is also a bit of a organizing around IDEs or text editors, although the only thing I would really call a community here is emacs, and that I suspect mostly because people tend to use it for more than just work.
