To pile on, from what I've seen, Reddit is shit for a community of people getting to know each other.
Posts aging out mean that discussions fade from view. That means that they die off, as other people don't join in. Combine that with karma, and you get people tending to just contribute content that is counter to community building.
I've seen some similar stuff happen on Discord servers (I'm looking at you, Discord servers with 50 topic channels), but I've also seen people slowly get to know each other better there.
Or, to summarize: I generally see Reddit as better for discoverability and Discord as better for community. But they're both inadequate as a whole.
Posts aging out mean that discussions fade from view. That means that they die off, as other people don't join in. Combine that with karma, and you get people tending to just contribute content that is counter to community building.
I've seen some similar stuff happen on Discord servers (I'm looking at you, Discord servers with 50 topic channels), but I've also seen people slowly get to know each other better there.
Or, to summarize: I generally see Reddit as better for discoverability and Discord as better for community. But they're both inadequate as a whole.