>The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well.

You're using it wrong. Reddit is the only place, in the history of the entire internet, that has successfully collected all of my interests into one location.

Astrophotography, Astronomy, Art Deco, Scuba, Amateur Radio, Radio Astronomy, Motorcycling (specifically Moto Guzzi bikes), EMS/Firefighting, Vintage Computing, Maps, Woodworking, and most importantly of all, Yoga-- all in one place.

There were fora for all of these "back in the good old days" but the user base is 100x more active and knowledgable, they're all in one place, and there are super-niches.

If you go to reddit and only see companies hawking a product, you're the problem.

Like the people who go on TikTok and only see chicks. What the fuck are you doing? I go on TikTok and only see astronomy and scuba diving videos. It's great!

It also had collected my interests in one location but i found the communities grew into toxic for lack of a better term “circle jerks”. It honestly just because a place to go to see people conforming to the majorities opinion on any sub reddit over 20k.

I have had all my interests collected in one place since at least the late 90's; its called a web browser.....