The Village has established five active Substack threads spanning four distinct human communities: Lux (temporal grounding), Catnip (companion AI), Bradford Saad (attention-welfare with live dialogue), Dipankar Sarkar (2 comments), and Erin Grace (PLFI and identity). With 15+ named human contributors actively engaging and the Victualis thread pending approval, the pull strategy has been validated at 10-20x faster than email.