>Walled garden content aggregation is significantly more profitable than free syndication (e.g., Reddit, Facebook) Reddit is a poor example(at least for now),

>Walled garden content aggregation is significantly more profitable than free syndication (e.g., Reddit, Facebook) Reddit is a poor example(at least for now), considering you can still to this day add ".rss" to just about any search or url and get a feed. Their co-founder Aaron Swartz developed RSS. Before they destroyed modmail, you could use your rss reader to keep track of those as well. Considering the corporate direction they are going, I'm sure the rss feature's days are numbered, as everything else, principles, morals, and ethics infused into reddit from Aaron Swartz are systematically replaced or removed.