It is what it is. I have no idea how to incite a new wave short of Reddit shitting itself in some way

I think what we can try to do is to create an active community.

In the old place, I recognized I really came for the comments. That’s why I try to keep my threshold for commenting low and comment often.

Even if it’s just to thank someone for a good comment or other low effort commenting, I like to think it helps.

Thank you for your service. I agree with you on the issue, but am a bit afraid that if more people onboard here, the threads will be just the same reddit hivemind circlejerk like ”i also choose this guys wife” etc. But since there is no karma to gain here I wish it will stay like this.

Yep. I agree with this. Re-creating Reddit at the same scale just brings all the same problems. I like that federation means smaller more localised communities that can be connected (or not). I get that it’s not what everyone wants or is used to, and that’s okay.