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That's funny because the meme subs still far outpace posting from politics subs for me, and I mostly see memes.
In fact, a few weeks ago, there were lots of complaints in meme comments of how the only thing they saw on the site was memes.
Memes may be thriving but niche interest communities can't even get off the ground.
So just like reddit 14 years ago when I first left Digg for greener pastures. When I joined, it was years before my local city subreddit sprang to life, and for years, it had around 1000 active accounts and only now has over 10k accounts.
Man, if the people on reddit back in the day had sat around complaining about lack of content like this, the site would have died. Instead they started making fucking content.
It takes time for communities to grow, and it feels like a lot of the folks who left reddit only ever knew reddit as a ready-made-community filled with thousands of people already. As in, they were latecomers and missed all the slow growth.
Well, considering we are in a post about the userbase shrinking maybe the situation is not quite the same.
I also don't have that kind of time and energy to get a whole community running just for the kicks anymore, and I definitely do not appreciate to have the deficiencies of this place thrown on my face as if that's my responsibility. It's not exactly welcoming or motivating.
Reddit admins literally ran bot accounts to fill content on reddit and make it seem more active at first. The users who came from Digg had similar complaints, and reddit userbase fluctuated at lot in the first few years. It's actually exactly the same (minus the admins using bots to make it seem more active).
No one is asking you, specifically, to do it.
Maybe we should ask spez to come over and help generate engagement :P
Eh, remains to be seen. The pacing of the internet today is very different.
Then don't get on my case for not liking the lack of content, geez!
Sorry, I just think it's a dumb, entitled complaint. I'm not asking you to do anything other than stop whinging.
Redditor-level rudeness sure showed up quickly though
That's funny, I thought it was redditor-level entitlement that showed up.
Even the memes are pretty stale, definitely not dank. Many of these memes are reposts of stuff I saw years ago on Reddit.
Political memes are so stale these days.