There are some nice communities out there, but they’re usually well hidden and relatively small. Once a community grows, it turns into the same shit show as the rest of Reddit.
Want to learn how to make Kombucha, lock picking, or 3D printing? Then you probably want Reddit.
But anything approaching the popularity of a moderately successful video game turns into a shit show. One of the free to play games I use to play actually had two subreddits, after a community schism. Bonkers.