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>Your premise is based wholly on the belief that you know more about Reddit users than Reddit does. That seems dubious to me.

I know that their UI and native application are absolutely bullshit.

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Sure, but something very important to remember in software is that users will put up with endless bullshit if the app is solving a problem for them. I could point out hundreds of apps that are absolute garbage that I've happily used because no matter how bad they are they're better than not using them. Reddit's apps don't need to be good if users derive enough value (fun, joy, karma, access to porn, whatever) from using Reddit despite the UI.

Something that so many founders get wrong is the belief that something needs to be good to be valuable. It doesn't. It just needs to be better than not having it. That is often a tremendously low bar.

Even if that is the case, it does not say much about their ability to evaluate what category of users (e.g., those coming from Apollo or their first-party clients) is generating more views/interactions and indirectly more "value" on their platform.

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