Sadly, there’s just not a critical mass of users in most of the communities I’m interested in. I pop in here every once in a while to see what’s going on, but it’s currently lacking the diversity of content that you get on Reddit. I’m still rooting for it to succeed.

Yeah, just like big companies like Google use email protocols with Gmail. It’s actually good for adoption. The alternative is that FB uses its own proprietary and competing protocol, making everything more fragmented.

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That’s all true. I do also think that there needs to be a certain amount of built-in stability in order for federated communities to grow. People are less likely to stick around if there is a high risk that their favorite communities becomes fractured into isolated instances.

I feel bad for the Titanic expert on board. His love for the Titanic probably clouded his judgment about how unsafe the whole operation was.

If the other passengers were aware of all the red flags with the sub, they’d all be terrified. It was just a matter of time before that death trap claimed its victims.