This is patently false. Search is not what determines the success or failure of a site.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I have no idea which internet you've been using for the last several decades, but search absolutely does determine the success or failure of A LOT of websites.

Search predominantly makes up close to 70% - 90% of a large site's traffic, and this is how advertisers determine the value of what sort of ads will run on said site, usually gauged through Comscore.

Now in this case, .win isn't a commercially viable website, so you would have a point insofar as the search not being important for that aspect of the site, but for fact-checking, information, and mindshare, search is an invaluable tool. It's why Google controls some 91.86% of both search and ad revenue on the global web: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

Every time a person types in communities.win, or selects it from their bookmarks, that was a LOSS for google. A loss for reddit. That was traffic that reached us, without them. IN SPITE of them. A net lost customer to them.

Which is peanuts compared to the billions of people using the other services. I know this might make you feel big in some way, but it reminds me of when Dr. Evil was asking for like $1 million in ransom.

Having a compelling, active community that people want to participate in and spread word about is what makes or breaks a site.

Only if it's allowed to be disseminated, which is something else you seem to lack accountability for.

I'll give you an example: YouTube censors out websites it deems "Right wing", even for the comments. So let's say you want to share a .win with some people to red pill them on YouTube. Great. Now your comment is shadowbanned, and if you keep trying to post it, your P-score will be lowered and your account will be shadowbanned to the point where your comments just won't show up on any channel, eventually.

Copy and paste this tactic across most large scale social media, and you can see how "word of mouth" is only as effective as that "word" is allowed to spread.

To those of you who still use reddit: I doubt your commitment to the great work of defeating reddit. In my eyes you are a failure by your own choices as a consumer. You give them power OVER YOU by your continued patronage.

This, I actually do agree with. Reddit is cancerous, even just to read. I try to avoid it at all costs even when looking up some fairly obscure information. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but for the most part everyone should be trying to avoid that cesspit.

The only answer is to walk away, make this the best we can, use it for everything, and BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE.

Sounds good and all, but how well did that work out for Parler and Gab?

The .win situation is a little bit more complex than that, and there's a tricky balance involving growth versus inconspicuousness. But I feel I've wasted enough time talking about this subject.