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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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 215 points 1 year ago

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.