Third place ( community building concept)

I recently realized and talked about how HN has been my third place for a while ( young account but ( relatively ) old soul ). Thought I should submit the thing itself.

Turns out those are really important, and their destruction is one of the serious side-effects of the sanitary measures that is almost completely ignored, or at least not part of the equation of all the downsides to this non-sense ( referring mostly to lockdowns ). Anyway, I'm not in the mood for a Covid debate, just find it useful to delineate this concept.