Karnage on Nostr: Communities are tricky two sided challenges. Nobody wants to join an empty community ...

Communities are tricky two sided challenges. Nobody wants to join an empty community and nobody wants to write for an empty community. It requires A LOT of work. I ran a community for over a year and experienced this first hand.

The trick is to seed the community with a good number of active users who share interests in the same subject. The interactions must recent so others see they’re not joining ghost towns.

The issue I see with nostr moderated communities is that you can see all of them right away and most are empty. Big reason not to join.

I think the way to solve that is to have a global cross-community feed and to surface active communities.