the site isn't really big enough to fill all those communities with content every single day, and most of the long term users browse All anyhow, and the default in years past at least was to auto-subscribe new users to all but a couple comms. In fact there's a contingent of people who strenuously opposed adding any comms other than main/chapotraphouse. I don't see it as a problem because I never really browse by comm and don't particularly care if a comm "looks dead". because it's just a way of tagging posts so people can filter out what they don't want to hear about, and distributing the moderation workload

Plus, a ton of the activity day-to-day is happening in the megathreads, not in posts. If I went and saw a new movie and wanted to talk about it, unless I had a meme to share or a lot of thoughts/an effortpost, it would probably just go in the mega. People seem to see posting as a bigger hurdle than commenting and so do it less.

In terms of playing games/watching a movie together, there are some off-site discord and matrix chats that may do that, idk. And there are the stickied posts almost every day about what's being watched together on the cytube @ live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Plus idk about everyone else but, I don't dedicate much of my time to games or movies anymore. Less and less as I've gotten older. I'd rather do things with other people IRL typically, including gaming/watching tv. and frankly nobody needs to hear my takes on the sopranos 25 years after release and well after it was watched in cytube