Gemini and Character AI ? A few hundred million. Claude ? Doesn't even register. And the gap has only been increasing.
So, "just" brand recognition ? That feels like saying Google "just" has brand recognition over Bing.
https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-top...
Sure, you could comment on Digg, but it was a pain and not good for conversations, and that meant there was less to keep people around when it seemed like the company was started to put their finger on the scales for URL-submissions.
Reddit had subreddits long before the migration. Reddit was a not very used site that had all the features.
It was Digg that made the decisions to force people off of it, not anything reddit did outside of having a space available that worked.
Reddit did not win due to it's features, it won because Digg said it doesn't matter what the users think, we will redesign the site and change how it works regardless of the majority telling us they don't want it.