I really like chapo because it feels like an example of a genuine community that exists mainly on social media, and I think that's pretty rare. So I was wondering what traits or or advantages chapochat had that contributed to its success in fulfilling this sort of niche. And maybe how this differs from other forms of social media. Any of you folks have any ideas?
I think what makes this community stand out is how you can be a lot more personal here. You can pretty much talk about anything here (within reason), and a lot of people have shared some very personal stuff here and have it been validated by others. You don't get that on a subreddit or a Facebook group, the scope of conversation is too narrow. On twitter everything is too decentralised for you to feel a sense of community, instead, you just feel like individual fish in a huge sea.
I get that, I wonder how much of that is the small size, and if you could theoretically have a website with millions of users but still retain healthy communities like this one.