I wanted to see how active some crypto communities can be.
Not because I wanted to ask for anything.I wasn't looking for an airdrop.
I wasn't trying to promote anything.
I just wanted to know if people were actually active inside some of these crypto communities or if most of the members were just there because they joined the server once and forgot about it.
So I decided to carry out my own little test.
I selected 10 crypto communities on Discord.
I didn't really care whether they were big or small. I just wanted to see how people would react when someone randomly came into the community and said something as simple as:
"Good morning everyone."
Nothing complicated.
No question.
No giveaway.
No "wen token?"
No asking for help.
Just a simple good morning.
I typed "Good morning everyone" in each of the 10 Discord groups.
Then I waited.
At first, I was expecting to see notifications start coming in almost immediately.
You know how some crypto communities usually look on Discord.
Messages flying everywhere.
People talking about the project.
People discussing the latest updates.
Moderators answering questions.
Community members arguing about the token.
Somebody asking about the roadmap.
Somebody else talking about price.
And then there are always those people who just say GM every morning.
So I thought that if these communities were really active, a simple "Good morning everyone" should at least get a few responses.
I wasn't expecting everybody to reply.
Of course, that would be unrealistic.
But I expected more than what I eventually got.
I dropped the message in the first community.
Then the second.
Then the third.
I continued until I had done it in all 10 communities.
After that, I put my phone down and went about my normal activities.
I wasn't sitting there refreshing Discord every five minutes.
I wasn't waiting desperately for someone to respond.
I just wanted to check later and see what happened.
A few hours passed.
I checked Discord.
Nothing much.
I checked again.
Still nothing.
I started wondering if my messages had somehow disappeared or if I had accidentally posted them in the wrong channels.
So I checked properly.
The messages were there.
People could see them.
But most people simply didn't care enough to respond.
After about 7 hours, I checked the 10 communities again.
And the result honestly surprised me.
Out of the 10 communities, only 3 replied.
Just 3.
Three communities out of the 10.
The remaining 7 were still quiet.
Very quiet.
Like nobody had entered Discord for the entire day.
At that point, I started laughing.
I was like, "So these people are actually here?"
Because looking at the member numbers of some of these communities, you would think there would be people everywhere.
Hundreds of members.
Some even had thousands of members.
But the activity didn't really match the numbers.
It reminded me of those places where you see a huge crowd listed as members, but when you actually enter, you can hear the sound of your own footsteps.
Ghost town.
Complete ghost town.
And that's one thing I have started noticing about crypto communities.
The number of members doesn't always tell you how active a community really is.
A project can have 10,000 people inside a Discord server and still feel completely dead.
Another project can have 1,000 members and have people talking every minute.
So I think sometimes we need to look beyond the numbers.
Because when you see a project saying, "Join our 50,000-member community," it sounds impressive.
You might immediately think, "Wow, this project has a very strong community."
But how many of those 50,000 people are actually active?
How many of them are reading the messages?
How many are contributing?
How many are asking questions?
How many are helping new members?
How many are actually interested in the project?
And how many simply joined because they saw an airdrop announcement somewhere?
That's the part that the member count doesn't tell you.
My little experiment wasn't scientific.
I wasn't trying to conduct some serious research about crypto communities.
It was just something I wanted to try out for myself.
I wanted to see how people would react to a random person saying good morning.
And the result gave me a small lesson.
Sometimes, activity is more important than numbers.
I've been in crypto communities where the chat is moving so fast that you can barely keep up.
You send one message and within seconds, someone replies.
People are discussing things.
People are sharing information.
People are joking around.
People are asking questions.
You can actually feel that there are real people behind the usernames.
Then you enter another community and it feels completely different.
You see thousands of members, but the chat is almost empty.
You scroll through the messages and most of them are days old.
Nobody is talking.
Nobody is asking questions.
Nobody seems interested.
And you start wondering what happened.
Maybe the project isn't doing anything at the moment.
Maybe people joined because of an incentive and left after they didn't get what they wanted.
Maybe most of the members are inactive.
Or maybe everyone is just waiting for something to happen.
There are many possible reasons.
But from my little test, I realized something.
If you really want to know whether a crypto community is active, don't just look at the number of members.
Go inside.
Read the conversations.
Watch what people are discussing.
See how quickly people respond.
Ask a simple question.
Say GM.
Say hello.
You might learn more from that than from looking at the member count.
And that's exactly what happened to me.
I went into 10 communities expecting at least some level of activity.
I greeted everyone.
"Good morning everyone."
Seven hours later, only 3 communities had responded.
The other 7?
Still quiet.
Still silent.
Still looking like nobody lives there.
Maybe someone will eventually reply to those messages.
Maybe they won't.
At this point, I don't even know.
But one thing is certain.
I went there looking for active crypto communities.
Instead, I found seven ghost towns. 😂
Sometimes in web 3, you really have to look beyond the numbers.
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