Okay, well, it wasn't clear to me and it sounded like you were coming down on the knowledge base of all the users just as much as the corporation that created the environment. I think we have to give credit to the company for at least building the environment in the first place for us to learn how the environment itself works, as much as our own interactions with each other. Now that we have more federated content, then down they can go, but I'm saying they have had their legitimate, positive place in the history of our online social development.

I never said “I didn’t learn a single thing while I was there”

I know; that's why I asked if that was the case, to check. So I do not agree that "any form of corporate social media is harmful." It's more of a mixed bag. The bottom line is that I'm ultimately grateful for Reddit's existence, or at least how it was at one point in time before it became eviler, and I think we all should be, and that's why by extension I feel that anyone who just blanket-states it as horrible and annihilation-worthy (that's what your statement sure sounded like) wasn't going to nontoxic, edifying communities, a.k.a. didn't figure out how to use it correctly.

To me, it's like people pooping on ChatGPT. Yes, it has its limitations, and yes, it's gotten many things blatantly wrong and forged literal lies. But if you know how to use it correctly and stay aware of its issues, it is life-changing. I'm not defending the atrocities of Reddit, either, but the whole picture is not as bleak as "any form" of it being harmful.