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Hey folks (if folks there be)! I’m one of the new mods for this small community. I’m not by nature a huge poster of content (too many interactions with STRIVES, too many briefings on CUI/ITAR/Limited Rights 🤐)… but I feel like y’all are even tighter-lipped than me.

So. I’m going to throw this post out, looking for signs of life. Interested to know whether there’s a niche this community could be filling, interested to know whether the content creators have migrated back to Reddit. Interested to know if there’s a feature or element of the site that is hindering participation.

If this goes unanswered, I’m probably going to propose to have the community eliminated (is that even a thing?) or taken private and held in trust for the next group that want to have a go. A dusty, inactive channel is a bad look when the agency and the world of space in general is so vibrant.

Thoughts?

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It's a fairly well-known thing that the larger an internet community gets, the more diluted it gets. There's exceptions, like r/askhistorians was, but they're rare, and often rely on something like utterly draconian moderation practices to even remain functional at a high level of quality.

The easiest way to find the best communities is to look for the small ones though. Places like this.

It wouldn't always necessarily be this way either. If the sub exploded and acquired millions of users, the tone of the place would progress through several evolutions.