They're a chicken versus egg problem for me. The metagame of reddit encourages that kind of person and traps them in a snowballing circlejerk of their views. It's like the peer pressure version of youtube's algorithm. Demographically and as a company reddit is terrible. The idea of a centralised forum where I can create my own subforums is where they got it right. It's a unique kind of rhizomatic growth where each new node can be a whole new miniature movement, with peasant rebellions against the subreddit lords. Hexbear's a step back there in that structurally ideas can't organically become new communities without admin approval.