@J12t "network effect", in the sense that it's applied to Twitter or Facebook, is almost non-existent for reddit. It's a reddit meme that reddit users actively hide their usernames from people, but there's a whole lot of truth to that. Reddit is not a place for the kind of social interaction that results in social networks. The structure of a link aggregator in general is always focused on the topic, never the participants.

We may talk about a reddit community in general, or some subreddit communities, but even when there are well known people, they aren't people you will miss.

Moreover, reddit has the common statistic "90% consume, 9% interact, 1% create"... The vast majority of reddit users do not contribute to the conversation... And they won't have any ties to a specific site. If a new, more accessable link aggregator pops up, one resistant to enshittyfication, it will be extremely easy to move .