Hard to meet a person that doesn't at least dislike reddit, but at least old.reddit.com is quite an efficient page.

I had an internet outage that left me with a few kilobytes/s upstream/downstream. Most of the modern web was plainly unusable, often requests got terminated before all data was transmitted.

But reddit among few other sites did work quite well. Of course not for pictures and media, but the text and comments were quickly displayed. In hindsight I am not sure if that was better than a complete outage, but that is a content problem.