for now Reddit is still a font of information and advice from knowledgeable people.

That too is changing. For the last few months, most technical posts I search on reddit are starting to get filled with [Deleted] for all the actual answers as reddit's current push to ban left leaning users has removed all the people who actually were interested in giving answers in the past.

I mean yeah, there was always a few [Deleted]s in every old thread but in the last half year it has become the majority of them.