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Reddit is a top 20 site, according to Alexa. So they're not doing poorly. And any social website has a moat: the network effects from social connections.



It's at #18, below Wikipedia, live.com, Zoom, Yahoo, the usual suspects (Google/YouTube/Facebook/Amazon) and a bunch of Chinese websites.

All this proves is that the Alexa top N isn't a good metric of determining who is or isn't a monopoly. It's completely ignoring mobile apps (so Instagram/Whatsapp don't make an appearance), and it has no visibility into revenue. Reddit's current total valuation is in the small single digit billions. It doesn't deserve consideration in a conversation about the true gorillas in the field, i.e. the ones that are worth three orders of magnitude more.




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