Reddit is a classic case of an inferior product winning because it got more popular because it was in the right place at the right time. Reddit became the defacto link aggregator after everyone abandoned Digg back in the day, people didn't go there because they thought it was great, they went there because Digg really fucked up. Reddit actually wasn't that bad before Digg exodus, and even at the start of that it wasn't too bad. The censorship eventually crept in from the far left subs and took over everything. I love you faggots but the way places like this are ran and the content ensures that if reddit were to fuck up as bad as Digg did and everyone left, normalfags wouldn't show up because the content would scare them.