I think this is a valid point and what strikes me as most interesting about it is that we are indeed entering into a time where technology is increasingly becom

I think this is a valid point and what strikes me as most interesting about it is that we are indeed entering into a time where technology is increasingly becoming a commodity. Perhaps this is the wrong place to be making such a claim (given that this is "Hacker News"), but I believe that the connections that emerge from such enabling technology as reddit's is more important than the underlying implementations that create such connections. It's also useful to mention that the user experience that is embodied in reddit's code is pretty specific to reddit the site. While others might want to create their own reddits, they are merely distributing reddit's user experience to the rest of the internet. What would be interesting to me is if the specific user experience is morphed into a new user experience, instead of merely repackaging it into something that looks different.