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Yeah, I wonder this too. Other than the logistics, what's stopping us from making a new one for and by the users?
Comment by horsebycommittee at 09/06/2021 at 20:07 UTC
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Other than the logistics, what's stopping us from making a new one for and by the users?
Network effects. Reddit Gifts grew organically and already has lots of users and established procedures/coding. Any replacement will need to spend a lot of start-up work duplicating all of that, while also competing with any other start-ups that try to do the same thing. Eventually the community might coalesce around one service that eventually grows into what Reddit Gifts already is, but that would take years and lots of work. (Time and effort that would be unnecessary to spend if RG weren't being shut down. This is just wasteful.)