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Thank you! You gave me an important insight that Reddit is more of a multi-sided market than service providers of open email infrastructure are. But to be speci

• smoldesu 3y ago
  > But to be specific what would Reddit (or its purported replacement) need to do? To make money? It might be impossible. You can't just put ads up on text like you can with video and expect everyone to come anyways. Very little that Reddit does is unique, and they could easily be replaced by a community-maintained alternative. Nothing that users currently love about Reddit is impossible to find elsewhere. So, the age of Reddit being monitizable may be over. It's already been "over" for traditional print media's transition[0], it wouldn't be surprising if Reddit discovered that making money off forums at-scale is a snipe chase. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/new-york-times-apple-news-app.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/new-york-times...
• PaulHoule 3y ago
  Reduce operating costs to the maximum extent possible. Look for radical solutions to the problems of moderation. (Possibly don’t let sites get too big, move the party someplace else once invaders get in, …)