Reddit has a huge user base, that is their value. They generate a lot of data every second, which can be sold. Of course this is technically possible on other platforms, but they do have it right now right here.
Discord was never “good”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU
I have bad news for you, it was adversarial from the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU
When I have discovered Linux, I did all the ricing with Compiz, until I actually had to get productive …
The golden age of social networks is over. Even if a comment section is not full of Russian bots, it’s either full with ChatGPT bots OR some crawler bots that farm content. That’s good, people need to stop their naive approach towards social media, that we’ve had so far. Communication will probably become more intimate as a counter-reaction. Until then, there is no need to fight for something that is simply obsolete.