Start telling people now, over on reddit. BEFORE they start cracking down. That way, everyone will know, and the growth will happen even more rapidly.
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If old age was the only thing people ever died of, you really would have zinged me, there.
But alas, sweet summer child, none of us are guaranteed perfect health and good conditions, until we're 100. And, as I've been trying to make clear, dying is just the most extreme reason that someone might stop frequenting a platform.
If the 9.5 per 1000 annual death rate is enough to make any impact on the population of these communities, what about other stuff? What if there are some days when the servers don't work right, and some people just drift away because of that? What if another competing platform shows up and splits the community?
Again: a rough average of 2k per community is simply too small. It's not enough to be safe, for the future. Remember that 20 or 30 thousand concurrent users is just barely sniffing the upper levels of what is considered a small subreddit, back over on Reddit.
It's just ASTONISHING to me that I'm having to make this basic point, over and over and over and over again. Two thousand people can almost be crammed into a couple of bigass airplanes. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SAY "yeah, I guess we could use a few more people."
Why is that so fucking hard for some of you fuckers? I'm about to lose my shit, with this fucking conversation.