I was surprised when I recently found out it is not anymore one big community but instead it got fragmented into many smaller ones.
People from one subreddit can be completely oblivious about what's going on in other ones. For the same URL you can have multiple discussions going on in parallel, one group not aware of the existence of others.
"I was surprised when I recently found out it is not anymore one big community but instead it got fragmented into many smaller ones."
That happened to Usenet over the years, so I am less surprised by that. I think it happens to any online forum with sufficient volume of posts that no one reader can read all of them.
I was surprised when I recently found out it is not anymore one big community but instead it got fragmented into many smaller ones.
People from one subreddit can be completely oblivious about what's going on in other ones. For the same URL you can have multiple discussions going on in parallel, one group not aware of the existence of others.