well we did have communities. i founded about half of them. but nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr says that with the NIP the communities were built on they have no future ...
considering noStrudel was only one of like two clients that even supported these communities and the other one was barely functional i have to assign a fair bit of weight to the opinion of nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr on this issue ...
maybe you two can discuss how to re-invent communities under a new NIP - i would be interested
the problem with old communities the founder or moderator really had no power ... all we could do is "approve" posts but even posts that aren't approved still showed and manually approving every single post by every person is obviously ridiculous ...
Reddit is still popular. It is HEAVILY moderated. In fact Fediverse is more popular than NOSTR and it is basically like Communities or Subreddits.
Maybe we could use existing Fediverse tech to build communities ? nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p