So with SMT's being worked on and communities being on the horizon as well I like to think of them as subreddits. I am not 100% sure as to how exactly they are going to work but I imagine that they will set some sort of beneficiary rewards and have moderators that earn those rewards depending on the amount they are active governing it, etc.
I remember when I started using Reddit in 2009 as a lurker and then signed up some time in 2010 or 11 and there weren't many subreddits around yet at the time. This changed quickly as anyone could create their own subreddits about pretty much anything. There are subreddits about your country, city, your hobbies, your work, your favorite tv shows, anime, band, actors. Name anything and it probably exists as a subreddit. The hard part is getting some traffic into them which many of them lack but with an easy to find name someone might stumble upon your community over time. Here's a traffic graph of the growth of amount of subreddits over time.
Here on Steem we've gotten used to #life being on top constantly for some weird reason, I personally find it to be a pretty dumb tag to use in your post. It could be that people think their post might get some more visibility due to curators checking out that tag but instead everyone is thinking the same way so it has the counter effect. Oh well, I like to still use my tags as they fit with the post and sometimes try and be a bit funny about it.
Same thing with subreddits, some can be called something you don't really expect and it might make it hard to find them but they rely on popularity and advertisement of others users mentioning it in comments and related posts to grow in subscribers. There are some quite weird ones with bizarre names.
For instance there's a subreddit called r/birdswitharms where yes, it's literally pictures of birds with human arms photoshopped onto them, yet it has 188k subscribers, here's a pic I found on there that I decided to meme:
Then there's the "thestopgirl" subreddit of a random clip of a girl saying stop when being filmed by the camera crew at a stadium: 26k subscribers. Yes, it's literally this gif being posted over and over again.
Going back to the weird ones, this one is called "animalswithoutnecks" but has a lot of other random things where they've just edited out their necks in photoshop. 34k subscribers.
One of my favorite ones is called "wheredidthesodago" and it basically started with this one gif in this r/funny post:
Now it has over 1 million subscribers and they continue to daily post gifs of TV commercials taken out of context in the titles. The internet ladies and gentlemen...
Anyway, I expect the amount of communities to explode the same way on Steem, each with their own history of how they got about, what happened and which ones will become very popular over time.
AskSteemit: What do you think will become very popular communities on Steem?
