Which is fine. These people are digital hoarders, desperate to save threads of puns on pictures of cats. None of it matters. You're not going to go back and look at all the pictures and threads you've posted. Life goes on.
Saving content from forums is the same idea. Reddit is just a collection of forums.
Do you think that, at no point in the future, it would be valuable to know how regular people thought and what they talked about today?
"icanhazcheezburger.com"
These things and by things I mean the dumpsterfication of social media content or internet content because it has no value.
Those same things don't "influence elections" and traumatized children and supposedly destroy society.
Social media is a fancy dumpster fire and that's all it will ever be. It burns out and starts anew from some other source.