Two thoughts -
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I believe (with nothing to support it) that “in the beginning” a bunch of communites were created by some sort of automation, to mirror Reddit, and they are now dead because no-one actually wanted them here in the first place and
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I often join communites because I’m mildly interested in the topic and am curious to learn more by observing to conversation - I’ll probably never end up posting. I don’t have any weight to pull in this scenario.
JayGray91@piefed.social 1 day ago
I wouldn’t call myself old in internet years but since 00s, I always lurk first. I guess that works for communities that have a bunch of active people, but doesn’t work for comms where only 1 person posts
Also because I don’t want the attention lol