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Comment by lotsofpulp

> Reddit is not valuable because it owns a serverfarm, or even because it employs people to maintain the serverfarm. It's valuable because it controls a cultural meetingpoint.

How did it come to control a cultural meeting point? Was it because they owned a server farm and employed people to create a website people wanted to use at the right time and the right place?

> Reddit provides some things, but not the actually-important things.

This will be easily proven by people moving from Reddit to an alternative. Or disproven by not moving to an alternative.

parent lotsofpulp 3 years ago

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