[willnonya]

"Competitors can only grow so fast, infrastructure takes time to scale, communities take time to organize and build"

Are you using an IT structure from the 1990's? Are you funding it using mail in contributions?

If not the only restriction on how fast a platform can grow is entirely down to how fast it can draw attention and acceptance from the masses.

If I'm being honest here these other platforms are a significantly smaller threat to reddit than reddit is. The way the platform reward low value posts and punish any dissenting opinions in discussion threads does more damage to their brands than any wpuld be competitor.

[woofcat]

Maybe in a world with an unlimited budget. I'm sure you're just thinking you spin up AWS with a million nodes and handle the traffic.

Not that database scaling can be an issue, or funding, or finding limits in your application.

[aerio]

Probably a junior dev without the required experience to really understand how hard it can be to suddenly and unexpectedly scale.

Why don't I strap on my money helmet and squeeze down into a money cannon and fire off into moneyland where money grow on moneys?