Why the fuck people keep using Reddit (including myself) I still can't fathom. Maybe the lack of alternatives?

Reddit is actively trying to "kill the Internet" turning itself into a garbage pile of short window relevance. Whatever you see at any moment may have a meaning at that exact time and never again. I can never sight something on my phone and then immediately switch to my laptop and hope to quickly find it there too. If you want to find something older than two weeks - forget it. Why the fuck they made it so hard to search even through your own fucking comments?

Sharing a link to a thread often is a pointless thing - by the time one finishes typing a comment, the thread might get closed and all your elaborate prose and thinking turns into useless, throwaway garbage.

I lost my Reddit account because I once answered someone's comment while I was connected to a VPN - turns out that violates something. They've shadow-banned me without even notifying. I kept posting comments and didn't even realize - nobody could even see them. I spent three weeks trying to revive it - everything I sent to the support went to the void - no indication of anyone ever seeing my plea. All the content and traffic I have generated for them (for free), over the years was all for nothing. All the useful tips I shared in the communities I participated in and honestly was trying to help people, all were gone.

So what's the point of Reddit at all? It ain't "front-page of the Internet" - it's the blackhole of it.

it is absolutely the lack of alternatives. centralization and ease of use are also big sellers.

15 years ago I was on 10 different forums and they all dried up as people went to the relevant subreddits. not even really a problem since they're all easy to aggregate anyway