Re:Account bans on Reddit
by Caldwellone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:20AM
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The hardest part about that is discovery. Where do you find these niche communities? eventually if you look hard enough, you’ll find them, but I think that friction is the reason people flock to a Reddit type ecosystem.
Re:Account bans on Reddit
by stackghost on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:21AM
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In some ways, the discovery difficulty is a feature, since as soon as something goes viral it tends to turn to shit.
Would the following work (just spitballing here)? If there were a site like reddit but where communities were only allowed a maximum of lets say 10,000 users, after which a Community_2, Community_3 etc needed to be created where other users could join. And none of these communities were allowed to have overlapping mods.
Is there a specific number of users for when Usenet’s eternal September kicks in?
I’d wager that there was a time when a supermajority of Anglosphere internet users were on Reddit. I could see why that’s enticing for the advertising douchebags that run Reddit, or perhaps for stroking Steve’s planet-sized ego.
But we’ve seen at least twice now that large online communities are not workable without becoming user-hostile. We need to reduce federation and centralization, and normalize smaller online communities again.