The problem is that you cant really have a competitor to reddit. People want all their news sources to be in one place. Imagine if you had /r/soccer on reddit but then /r/soccer on a different site. It would be two split communities. Its kind of set up in a way that makes it hard for competitors to exist unlike other products
I am not sure everyone uses/used reddit like that. 99% of the time, when I use reddit, I type in the subreddit I want to visit, I am very rarely (typically only when I click the URL) on the main page or on things like /r/all. So for me, the main benefit of using reddit is that I don’t need to log in multiple times.
RSS readers are also a way to combine news from various sites.
The problem is that you cant really have a competitor to reddit. People want all their news sources to be in one place. Imagine if you had /r/soccer on reddit but then /r/soccer on a different site. It would be two split communities. Its kind of set up in a way that makes it hard for competitors to exist unlike other products
I am not sure everyone uses/used reddit like that. 99% of the time, when I use reddit, I type in the subreddit I want to visit, I am very rarely (typically only when I click the URL) on the main page or on things like /r/all. So for me, the main benefit of using reddit is that I don’t need to log in multiple times. RSS readers are also a way to combine news from various sites.