r/Piracy on Reddit is more of a meme subreddit. I’ve never seen any actual discussion or valuable information as I do on this community. Why is that?

  • 312@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s the pendulum swing of pretty much every community on Reddit.

    • Community starts out with a small group of users dedicated to quality content related to the topic
    • Community growth reaches a point where the most popular posts begin to trend outside of the community
    • New users join the community after seeing popular posts show up in their own feeds. Growth accelerates
    • Community becomes “popular” enough that posts regularly trend outside of the community
    • New users flood in
    • Users flood the community with low-effort content to karma farm
    • Community now sucks.

    It happened to basically every big sub on Reddit once reaching a large enough size.