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On a similar note to your comment about the fire hose of low quality content, I find this most with what should be specialist subreddits. Something specifically dedicated to some special technical interest is usually filled with novices larping as experts to other novices who can't yet realize that's what's going on.

A secondary issue with Reddit is what I like to call "drive by toxicity". When you're discussing something and a zealot of some sort decides you've made an error of some kind so egregious that they must correct you, and that the error has also absolved them of any need to do so respectfully. Often times this error isn't even central to what you're discussing (ie: using the phrase linux OS rather than "implementation of the linux kernel"). This is particularly bad in tech subreddits, which are generally teaming with people who can't wait to nitpick over minutia.

Lastly, the odd cultural feature of Reddit where users feel it's appropriate to dig through comment histories and pull unrelated comments they disagree with into an attack on you over something is unsettling to say the least.