What is your personal definition of the word "community"? How does one create meaningful community?

Question

You can’t expose an empty community to prospect members and you don’t have a lot of content without your first members…

Is there a standard way to solve this? Is opening the community in beta only for select few members who can be your first content creators help? Or is there another way to do this?

Answer 1

A community is formed by like-minded people who come together (commune) in support of a common goal. It means supporting each other, being aware of each others’ needs and well being, sharing, caring and more. It is an extension of family or tribe. Big enough to need direction and guidance from the smart ones (elders?), and tight enough that people share willingly without expectation of remuneration (communism?) and police themselves, ideally.