I don't think "reddit is dead", but I do think the relatively intelligent and interesting userbase that was there ~10 years ago has been almost entirely displac

I don't think "reddit is dead", but I do think the relatively intelligent and interesting userbase that was there ~10 years ago has been almost entirely displaced by clickbait and propaganda targeted at the now mostly middlingly-intelligent read-only userbase. This almost inevitably happens when a site gets popular enough. There are only so many intelligent people actively posting on the internet, and it's impossible to have a site with 100,000 users (let alone the >400,000,000 of Reddit) with a high fraction of them providing good content. Certainly the heavy-handed censorship of the Reddit administration is a disincentive for people who are interested in topics at the edges of the overton window (i.e. most of the interesting people online).