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You're assuming integrations exist on day one. Hell you're assuming that an API even exists for people to build integrations against on day one, rather than th

• that_guy_iain 3y ago
  It doesn't matter if it's web requests or API requests. Traffic is still traffic and it still needs to be handled by web servers that cost money. And the idea that a start up can go from 0 to 1 million users in a few weeks without a lot of cash for servers isn't realistic. No real competitor for Reddit would slowly grow, they either take advantage of people being unhappy and do so in a quick manner and have an intital surge or they don't even have a chance. BlueSky has millions of users, people still complain that it's basically dead. Even though lots of people are using it. It's just dead compared to Twitter. That makes adoption harder.