Step 2.5 Make sure your site is hostile to ~60% of the potential user base, by favoriting Reich Wing hate speech, and punishing anyone posting contrary to that.

your data, which is the only thing of value your company has.

I mean, I agree that it certainly has value, but the userbase does too; it's the userbase that generates that valuable data when it comments and posts.

Actually, in my case reddit forced me to obtain answers without visiting the site because it is hostile to me... I'm clearly in the minority along with you all :). But, while I'd love the real users there to move here, reddit the company can rot.

Making me log in, to view anything will just further remove my eyes from anything created there. I only visited a couple subreddits (primarily my local soccer team's game thread) to view the comments. Since I deleted my account 3 years ago I guess I'm going to miss out on that.

Step 4 - block the rest of the referral traffic, because that's why.