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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 220 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.

[–] [email protected] 82 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. :)

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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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