Yeah. Shame. There was an "online ethnography" attempt a few
   years ago but it's on a website with broken PHP, old articles
   and smells of dust mites and rot.

   I never cared for the stereotyping in anthropology... but
   ethnography is uniquely fascinating because it looks at people
   from a simultaneous subjective/objective perspective. Very rare
   indeed.

   Example: When I first heard of bronies a few years ago, I
   quickly learned what i could about the general perspective of
   bronie-dom and wrote a defense-of bronies for a wider population
   (the early Google+... 2011 I think?) - anyway, ended up gaining
   me several hundred brony friends because, "I understood them".
   And I do. Yet, I'm not part of the group either.

   It's the perspective I have whenever I find a group fascinating.
   Last was Philosophers / Logicians. I concluded my study last
   night. I enter with a "What's it like to think/feel/be from this
   perspective?" - and I always walk away enriched with knowledge I
   can apply elsewhere.

   If I haven't _personally_ found myself changed by the
   experience, then I'm not finished yet. Took me nine months.