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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?

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[–] 312@lemm.ee 216 points 1 year ago (43 children)

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.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Yeah! And it helps that there is no karma here. We just give a hoot about preservation and sharing. :)

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hope Lemmy never adds karma, or an aggregate score, or anything like that. The up/down votes on posts and comments are good enough.

[–] MadmanX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I never understood the karma thing... guess I'm old school - post to help others where you can and let that be the "karma" you are known for.

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