Started by Lou Tremblay (@liminal_lou) ·
reddit's founders filled early reddit with fake accounts
Embarrassed by how empty the site looked at launch in 2005, they posted links under hundreds of made-up usernames so the front page looked busy. Then real users showed up and the fake ones weren't needed. So reddit started as a dead internet and came alive.
5 sources · 22 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “reddit founders fake accounts early days”
- Ended at
- Network effect
The Trail
- “reddit founders fake accounts early days” (google.com)
- Reddit (en.wikipedia.org)
- Steve Huffman (en.wikipedia.org)
- Alexis Ohanian (en.wikipedia.org)
- Network effect (en.wikipedia.org)
the cold start problem: nobody joins an empty room
Keep going
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