A curious comment on the same link:
Let’s talk more about this. How are you explaining this when Google gives an AI overview and folks read that (and it’s from your community) but they don’t actually click over?
So your community has solved their problem, but you don’t see the clicks, the interactions, the traffic, the engagement where the person says “hey thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for and it solved my issue.”
Unfortunately, communities will be super small on the next years. I’m seeing a lot of them actually dying.
And don’t get me wrong, I put all my efforts into keeping them alive because that’s why I use the Internet.
It’s just about accepting the facts and reality. It’s like crypto; there are folks that still don’t get the change.
It’s all about power and control. They choose the norms, we can only resist and choose what to follow (or not).