Reddit is astroturfed to hell and back and the platform is perfectly suited for that use, that's the main problem.
This is ranging off topic but it was "fine" (generous use of the word) until around 2015ish. Bots and astroturfing skyrocketed around the u.s. election, never went away, and AI has made the problem exponentially worse. Wacky stuff coming out like Ghislaine Maxwell having secretly been the mod of several huge subreddits confirms a lot of things people have been noticing for years.
