[ramraj07]

There is SOME secret sauce. The admins _do_ play a crucial role. The history plays a role.

Everyone says this about reddit and Twitter and yet it's still not true that twitter has been replaced in spite of the shit show going on there.

[_Qeomash_]

The various alternative reddits that have popped up in the past prove the tech stack isn't complex. Their lack of user adoption shows that the secret sauce is the userbase, not the tech.