If reddit is an indication of the power of sub-communities, we should look at how that panned out in 2008, the year dominated by the launch of numerous new subreddits.  By the end of that year (except for a short-lived blip following the 2008 Presidential election), no one subreddit (not even "reddit.com") would capture more than 50% of Reddit's attention. From the beginning of 2008 (to at least the end of 2012), there was a continual exponential increase in the number of unique subreddits people submitted to each week, according to Matt Essert (January 12, 2014). "[Here's the Cool Graph Reddit Fans Should Show Haters Who Still Claim It's Not a Legit News Site](https://www.mic.com/articles/78735/here-s-the-cool-graph-reddit-fans-should-show-haters-who-still-claim-it-s-not-a-legit-news-site)". Mic.com. Retrieved May 29, 2015:

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We do not have to be bound by reddit's model.  We can explore our own.  Lets come up with some community ideas.  Here are some I thought of:

* **Ask Eli** - Might be interesting.
* **Stadia** - Google's new game streaming service that just launched.
* **SCP** - All about *Secure, Contain, and Protect* (see: [scp-wiki.net](http://www.scp-wiki.net/))
* **Minecraft** - Why not?
* **The Expanse** - SciFi done right.
* **Wikipedia Trails** - Have you ever just browsed Wikipedia?  Why not track the trail of curiosity and keep a log?
* **Typical Steemians** - Where you go to make parodies of behavior you've seen on Steem.
* **Goats** - All about goats.
* **Crazy Straws** - Designing those plastic crazy straws.

Got any more ideas?

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<sup>The new crowd is heavily shaped by this guy named Eric, who's basically the Paris Hilton of the amateur plastic crazy straw design world.</sup>
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