I am not familiar with all those projects, but my understanding is that reddit's moats are:
- infra which can serve significant traffic over petabytes of content with search and recommendation on top of them
- they have bootstrapped content volume and communities
- they have monetization in place which pays for all infra and salaries
how far mentioned projects from that state?
Search? Reddit search is so bad it’s practically a meme. They only added the ability to search within comments (y’know, like 90% of the site) _this year_.
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11dgwzy/whats_up_wi...
> they have bootstrapped content volume and communities
Do you mean when the founders (including current CEO) posted as a bunch of fake users to create the illusion that it was popular?
https://venturebeat.com/social/reddit-fake-users/
> they have monetization in place which pays for all infra and salaries
How is possible if Reddit has never been profitable/reached breakeven?
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve...