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Nice take. πŸ‘Œ

The point of weakness of Reddit is that it's not multilingual site. Even if it becomes somehow the #1 search in anglophone sphere, still there are billions who not speak English.

And when Reddit eat big enough share of the market, we will see old fashioned problems like bots moderation, censorship, the moderators authority...and as one of the hackernews commenters on your post wrote πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

> The Reddit trick is increasingly less viable as marketers are astroturfing Reddit*.

I add: see for example "Howitzer . co" and "Gummy search" although I don't say these products are bad per se, but you get the point.

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35039360

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