Reddit is reasonably good, and I've used it more-or-less as a blog since 2013. I've ultimately found it frustrating and limiting, largely through a broken Notifications mechanism, and a tendency to eat rather than promote real conversation.

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/acg9zf/alternativ...

This isn't an absolute showstopper, but it's quite disappointing. One of the weird things about G+ was -- as small and disliked and annoying as it was, some really, really, really good conversations got going there.

That's some lightning I'd like to rebottle elsewhere.