I think you’re focusing on your usecase a bit too much - consider the whole “add ‘reddit’ to your google search for better results” dynamic, and the effect of i

I think you’re focusing on your usecase a bit too much - consider the whole “add ‘reddit’ to your google search for better results” dynamic, and the effect of invested users on it. I totally agree with everything you said tho, just not that /r/popular lurkers interested in 15 minutes of memes are the only users important to their bottom line. After all, it’s important to remember the network effects that made Reddit big could just as easily make something else big to replace it. And think about how my shitty websites there are for midtier memes, and how they don’t hold a candle to Reddit in terms of size or cultural impact - 9gag, Imgur, and even 4chan immediately come to mind