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Why are most of the communities so... Empty?
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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I remember in the initial excitement of setting up the website, a large number of communities were set up that had widely intersecting audiences. If people are going to post something, they're going to post it once (generally), and if they're going to post it once, they're going to post it to the more popular relevant community. Communities rarely get deleted, so now we have a lot of dead ones.
(this reminds me of a very old reddit post where someone complains about the introduction of communities and said that reddit should have gone with a post tagging system instead so that one post could be followed by multiple "comms")