The difference between a well run subreddit in a niche topic or with a smaller community vs. a huge default sub can be huge. Both can have their problems, and m

The difference between a well run subreddit in a niche topic or with a smaller community vs. a huge default sub can be huge. Both can have their problems, and moderation is always an issue with online communities; but I think people are less insistent that Reddit is a "good" place and moreso that as it currently exists, warts and all, Reddit is useful and provides an enormous amount of utility to the internet, for better or worse. For some people using Reddit is "going on the internet" and they'll go to very few other websites --- the two are linked. The recent changes to Reddit, to a certain extent, highlight a trend in the internet where the things that people find extremely useful end up transitioning in a way that seems actively user hostile.