This is fascinating. Especially the sections on emotional coloring and post quality. I guess the emotional coloring section wasn't too surprising, but the quality section did surprise me. I don't use reddit, though, so my comparison would have been something like Medium or Substack.
I've been trying to use Reddit for a while and that's where I first found out about Steemit. Unfortunately, Reddit has banned my account for no apparent reason. I created another one, but history repeated itself.
I can't adequately rate the quality of the content on Reddit, as I have the impression that it is an information cesspool. But if I had better understood this social network, I probably would have been able to find some useful and informative posts.
UPD. You will be interested in: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3689431
Thanks! I started reading, but got annoyed by the bias in the background section. I do want to see the results, though, so I'll try again later when I'm not on my cell phone.
My impression of reddit is similar to yours. I'm always surprised that people are still using the platform.