To me, reddit seems a great way for a community to reinforce groupthink. Some of the most humorous threads you'll read would have had a -inf rating and thus never seen on reddit. I think it's okay to some extent but I find that forums definitely are a much better resource and controversial threads or posts in forums don't get buried or hidden by a downvote. From the echo chambers of the more extremist ones (won't name any examples to avoid provoking anyone), to examples of subreddits dying due to sloppy moderation not holding back meme-ification and shitposting (same), to communities with very clear goals that are achieved through iron-fisted moderation (usually knowledge-oriented communities like /r/AskHistorians). On reddit you can see in practice how the many different subcommunities apply this self-policing in practice, and what kind of effects it has. The overall conclusion being that the technological framework surrounding the community needs to provide the means for it to support itself not only against internal influences, but also to prevent it from harming itself.
Tangential example of technology/community interaction: Clay Shirky's "A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy" is a great essay on how self-policing can backfire even without external influences.
Ideally, they complement each other in a bigger-than-the-sum-of-its-parts manner that is better than using either one alone. But for the 80-90 different topics and communities I like to see, it's great. The default subreddits are too general for my taste, so I don't subscribe to many. I don't really get much value outside of this centralization. In contrast, a subreddit is a concentrated mass of people around a topic. Someone into a show on Twitter is going to dilute their feed and have a similarly diluted feed if they discuss it. On Twitter, people tend to congregate around others in their interest domain, but by default, all posts go everywhere. There are groups on Facebook, but it's so tied to you that it's hard to just be a part of a community. Everyone has a community they want to "be apart of" and Reddit lets you express yourself to those communities without having an identity tied to that community. This is something that everyone has in common. You can bet there are threads for discussing it in other parts of Reddit too. You can probably bet there's a subreddit for it, and in that community, a ton of people interested in it.
REDDIT REMIND ME BOT TV
Let's say a new TV show starts airing, and you really like it and want to discuss it more. Finding forums that are well managed and capture a good segment of the community is hard - and Reddit just becomes a default place to look now.
REDDIT REMIND ME BOT MOVIE
In the past, if you wanted to find an online community for a movie or a game, you had to find a forum for that community. The biggest value gain from Reddit, to me, is the ability to centralize effectively around different hobbies and activities.
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