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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by oooshha on Saturday April 06, 2019 @04:41PM (#19592897)
They will rapidly find that 90% of their traffic continues to exist within the subreddit, therefore anyone wanting a good thread will post it there rather than on the website, and the website will rapidly atrophy and be abandoned.
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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by r00fus on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:51PM (#19594280)
While this may be true ( some currently successful sites are spin-offs from other sites ), often there is an orbiting behavior.

If the option is to successfully monetize a portion of the flow vs nothing, it may turn out to be a net positive for the subreddit admins.

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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by blueboo on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:20AM (#19595331)
...but originating from Reddit? There's, ah, voat...
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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by Vinnl on Sunday April 07, 2019 @04:30AM (#19595571)
Imgur comes to mind.
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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by slfnflctd on Sunday April 07, 2019 @09:43AM (#19596706)
What's funniest to me about this is how reddit spent a bunch of money creating their own image hosting service, but somehow imgur is still often the better choice.
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