It's true, but the value is diminishing. I've tried that and more than once in the past half year, the advice within reddit posts were clearly astroturf AI-generated slop, and some of them were upvoted in similar amounts to apparent real recommendations.

Companies know Reddit is a recommendation hotspot, and stealth advertising is becoming typical business practice.

Internet is dead. If you just google the product, reddit will probably be the best result

even google does that now

I completely deleted my Reddit account, which is not a decision I took lightly, after more than 10 years of using that website frequently. I didn't use any of the purge apps, my comments can be fossilized under [deleted] incase it helps anyone.

Makes me wonder if that's a good indication of quality? I highly doubt bot accounts and astroturfers would ever delete their account, it's too valuable for them. Deleted users are kind of verified human in a way.