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I don't go to my city council meetings, but am still a member of our local community. This is quick becoming a debate over definitions, but I think reddit thin

I don't go to my city council meetings, but am still a member of our local community. This is quick becoming a debate over definitions, but I think reddit thinks of itself as both having a community and also as having individual communities. For example, anybody who has had a post in their niche community get to the front page understands that there's a larger community they're a part of that is different from their smaller one.

luckylion 6y ago
Sure, much like you can get your 15 minutes of fame and get on national TV. I wouldn't call "the whole country" one community with smaller child communities though. To me, community implies some amount of connections between the members. I've never put a number on it, but basically something like "if you randomly pick X people from the group, at least Y of them will know each other". That would limit both the size and also do a reasonable test for community membership: if nobody in the community knows you, you're not a part of the community.