A parallel world. A place of community where the boundaries are more flexible and language more fluid. Boundaries and territories exist on the net as much as anywhere else. Prejudices of the real world persist and multiply in cyberspace. You can have small-minded inward looking poets on the net as much as you can in the outside world.
People use it to promote their own work as much as to bring attention to others.
The desktop becomes the coffee shop. And so on. You have your poets who publish only on the net, and those who see it as a second-rate place to publish. In a field where self-publishing is the norm, there are strong moves towards creating hierarchies. An awareness of place beyond one's own may have been prompted by the net, but in the end it is subject to the conditions of social relations that operate in the outside world.