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Re:Reddit Strike Has Started by hombre_fatal on Sunday June 11, 2023 @04:51PM (#36285542)
The moat is that it has users, not that it’s impossible to clone.

Though developers vastly underestimate the difficulty in cloning something as well. As someone who thought it would be trivial to clone phpbb, it’s a lot of work to reach just feature parity. Your clone isn’t even going to have users to motivate you beyond the first 0.1% of the work.

Re:Reddit Strike Has Started by TX81Z on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:37AM (#36288841)
I mean more like “going head to head against Microsoft in office productivity” type moat, vs “this is hard for a solo dev with no budget” type moat.

Reddit has no real moat.