I'd be more surprised if > 10% of people here used Reddit ever.

WTH is Reddit and why should I care?

I'm with Jasmy, although I know what it is. I've probably visited two pages or so there in my life. (One of which was the page on Deep Dream.)

I've heard of Reddit...I just figured it was like Twitter, which I don't use. If people want to use it, that's their decision. I personally use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends and nothing else.

To each their own

Reddit is good for lurking, not for participating in, due to its large size and the low maturity levels of the other members.

I would argue that depends on the subreddit.

Reddit as a whole has nothing to do with being social. People create and delete accounts just to make single comments.

It is probably the largest news aggregate on the planet though.

Reddit is one of the greatest online portals ever. Want to learn how to fly fish, write a novel, speed run games, DIY anything, keep up on astronomy or particle physics... The answer to all of those is Reddit.

Inclusion of all the cool **** means a lot of not cool **** too, like an entire subreddit dedicated to furries, or videos of people dying.

Reddit is one of the greatest online portals ever. Want to learn how to fly fish, write a novel, speed run games, DIY anything, keep up on astronomy or particle physics... The answer to all of those is Reddit.

Inclusion of all the cool **** means a lot of not cool **** too, like an entire subreddit dedicated to furries, or videos of people dying.

You can get all that on YouTube.

Polishing a turd doesn't make it less of a turd.

The fact that you think YouTube would allow half of Reddit's content shows you really don't get it.

Reddit's only "a turd" in the sense that Freedom of Speech is "a turd." Yes, it allows a bunch of idiotic assholes to say stupid ****.

But that's the only way to ensure all the good stuff also is allowed to be said.

Edit: I should also add, the level of information on Reddit is simply **** astounding. Part of the reason I lurk rather than post there, is because the threads and posts that interest me I have no way to meaningfully contribute to (other than asking an ELI5 question). When someone discusses medicine (as an example) there, the thread is not packed with meaningless political drivel from people arguing semantics. The contributors are actually Biologists, Doctors, Chemists, and other researchers. It can be hard to follow, but you learn more following that type of reddit thread than you will anywhere else.

Rather not get into a pedantic argument about content guidelines. I just disagree with your flat assertion that Reddit is bad. If you base that on the existence of up/down-votes and shitty commenters then YouTube is even worse. One great thing that has come from Reddit that I have yet to see replicated on YouTube is a live Ask-Me-Anything session.