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Maybe my interest are too niche, but the trending communities stuff has felt too.... Bland/general for me. I'll keep trying it though, thanks.
The stuff I've seen has had communities with many posts but only a handful of comments. Maybe that only exists in those larger, more general communities for now though.
The formula for it is still being worked on, so I think just keep following that sub. I agree in general, but I still tend to find a couple of smaller more niche subs on the list every day.
I mean yeah, that's kind of what I was trying to say. For most of the small niche communities, we're still at a point where there will be one or maybe two people taking the initiative to post, a handful of people voting, and maybe a couple commenting here and there. That's just where we're at, population and growth-wise.
That's why everyone needs to take initiative to participate. Humans tend to follow the herd, so if a community has no posts or comments, new visitors - even those interested or even subscribed - will just think "this place is dead" and move on. If we populate them with content, we slowly lay the foundation for others to trickle in over time.