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View submission: Introducing Subreddit Forking
Jesus christ no. This sounds like a terrible idea.
I've been a part of several small subreddits for a time. Usually, one of two things happens when someone decides to make a more narrowly-focused sub based on an existing one.
1. The new sub withers on the vine, as there's just not enough content. You get a few holdouts trying to post there and their content is lost forever unless it's crossposted.
2. The new sub does well, but now the original sub loses a ton of content. Sometimes, this can be good and other content takes the place of the lost stuff, sometimes it leads to the original sub becoming a shell of itself.
There's nothing here!