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> posts have always been paramount and what attract people to the site, even though the discussions are great too

FWIW, the comments are the main reason I go to any social media site (Reddit and HN included).

Is Reddit social media? Nobody on there knows who I really am. I try to not post any personally identifying information (and even post purposefully misleading information). In my mind it is just interacting with people online or having an online community that defines social media. It is knowing who the people you are interacting with are in real life.

Reddit is very much social media; I stay psuedo-anonymous there and interact with it much as I would with other platforms, apart from putting minimal effort to stay incognito.

I'd probably same the same for me too, but I think what draws in the average person is the posts on Reddit more than anything, even if the comments are also gems.

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