Making communities hard to grow is a feature not a bug. Let us read our Shirky: https://web.archive.org/web/20050615082335/http://shirky.com/writings/group_en

Making communities hard to grow is a feature not a bug. Let us read our Shirky: https://web.archive.org/web/20050615082335/http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050615082335/http://shirky.com... A well-tended community is constrained by things like Dunbar's Number and SNR ratios. Soft forking is a common response - IMO reddit is the closest social platform to "getting it right", although it should do a better job of pushing low-value content (/r/politics, etc) down into the "minor leagues" of subreddits.