I think it would benefit from growing - the volume of content & discussion it just too small to support niche topics. If you want to talk about things other than the top ~30 topics, you will be waiting days for any form of response.

Oh and for some reason shoehorning in games? A product that tries to be everything becomes nothing.

Reddit is killing itself. It really didn’t have to do anything but let X & Insta & TikTok feed into it. It has a better structure for daily use that isn’t quite so toxic.

But instead they are letting Mods go crazy, Admin-bots that blow up your account with no explanation, user-bots that spam rage bait & other low effort LLM slop, and so on. It’s a dying platform that should be thriving. The first place people find after searching “Less toxic Reddit” is fediverse, so of course it’s growing.

The motivations of kids are generally pretty obvious - most parents know exactly what it is their kids are wanting to do. And kids will work to accomplish that motivation despite what roadblocks the parents put in place, and at somepoint they will figure out a strategy to remain undetected.

Parents don’t really get a vote WRT their kids having sex or doing drugs. They get _some influence over the details of how those occur, if they show they can be trusted to not freak out.