Reddit and Twitter on the other hand show all the bad sides of anonymity to the fullest. Way too much blind tribalism and conflict seeking, few adults actually capable of real discussion. So it's not only a waste of time, but one that gives you a bad mood as well.
Most people are using Twitter for the memes, the (often educational) content, the news, and direct messaging. The average person is probably not there to look for people to have a long form discussion with, especially if that person is a stranger who is trying to argue with them.
Of course it depends a lot which subreddits you use. Some are toxic. The more technically oriented ones are fine in my experience.
Twitter was the #1 source of left-wing extremist noise in my life. I'm sure there were/are right-wing extremists on that platform too, but one seemed to appear in my algorithmic feed more than the other. Or perhaps it was confirmation bias. Who knows!
Good riddance.
There are few ways to strip out some of their 10-year "improvement" and oh how deserted it looks under there...
I think this is true of most social networks, and is more obvious in certain cases, e.g., Tumblr.
The truth: most of those messages are angry and argumentative, and most of those "active users" are just the same people being angry and tribal towards each other.
It makes for good stats, but like all stats, they're just numbers if presented without the context and analysis behind them.