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Reddit is an interesting one. Since it's an anonymous experience, I guess it'd be the same issues with any internet community. It can be stressful to see seemingly abhorrent viewpoints in such concentrated numbers. And it can be stressful when you feel a community is turning against you, even if your connections to that community are extremely tendentious.

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I think Reddit is uniquely harmful to its users in several ways, maybe even moreso than Facebook:

- Users get an intense, one-sided parasocial relationship but with no upside of even communicating directly with each other

- The hivemind effect is very real, and using Reddit often gives people a very false sense of superiority of their knowledge on any given topics

- Misinformation is rife. Even outside of the conspiracy hubs. It's amazing how many of the "front page" posts are often misleading or slanted

- Astroturfing and content farming is even more prevalent but with less moderation.

It's interesting you call relationships on Reddit para-social, I don't know if that quite fits the word because Reddit is more of a two-way reciprocal relationship between commenters. Perhaps Twitter fits that description better since you get a lot of power users like Trump and other celebrities which broadcast out to their followers but don't typically respond to normies.

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