It really depends. Something like askhistorians is probably big enough for it to work. For the vastly smaller communities where I try to do that, the dancefloor looks as I like it IRL: empty besides me. It’s less of an empty dancefloor problem, and more that the 1% rule often means you are a part of the 1%, and the other 1-percenters stayed on reddit.
Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven’t found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.
It’s mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first
The other day I linked an interesting perspective on AI on [email protected] , hopefully those kind of exchanges happen more and more
It really depends. Something like askhistorians is probably big enough for it to work. For the vastly smaller communities where I try to do that, the dancefloor looks as I like it IRL: empty besides me. It’s less of an empty dancefloor problem, and more that the 1% rule often means you are a part of the 1%, and the other 1-percenters stayed on reddit.
On paper? Wtf? I don’t see that taking off. Is it a paranoid privacy thing?