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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:14PM (#35678917)
Step 2 probably has a bunch of stuff, but includes:

They posted content using fake accounts to stimulate adoption.

To my recollection they allowed a lot of skeevy (illegal and/or immoral) content to proliferate.

I think they probably ran at a loss for a long time; leaning heavily on volunteer personnel.

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by nanidin on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:34PM (#35683057)
Step 2 for a Reddit clone/competitor would be much easier and more convincing given the current state of LLM’s.