I'm not sure if it would help or restore the kinds of results you were seeing previously, but instead of adding "reddit", you can add "site:reddit.com" to get o

I'm not sure if it would help or restore the kinds of results you were seeing previously, but instead of adding "reddit", you can add "site:reddit.com" to get only results from that site. (Originally a Google feature, but works on DuckDuckGo also. Not sure about others.) Unless you mean that Reddit is astroturfed with the SEO garbage you're trying to avoid, in which case this will definitely not help. Is search on Reddit itself still useless?