Reddit is not privacy friendly that for sure.
But what are the popular alternative ?
I did check discuit.org, but it seem to have a low number of users.
You have the wrong mindset entirely. Just because there isnât an equal replacement doesnât mean you stay. Everyone that likes privacy shouldâve left when Reddit made a deal with Google. Hell, really before that, but that shouldâve been the flashing red light to run.
Lemmy is a fine alternative. Piefed is fine. Communities canât grow if everyone just says meh and keeps frequenting big tech platforms.
Just like anything else, it comes down to your individual threat model & priorities
If you can afford to avoid Reddit, do it. Itâs closed source, not private, and engages in morally questionable practices (such as is detailed in this article)
Un/fortunately, Reddit also hosts a lot of large, unique, niche communities. Lemmy & other âalternativesâ rarely enjoy enough users to be a true substitute. Many do still find irreplaceable value in redditâs online spaces
Redreader + anonymous email + VPN should probably provide most users with sufficient anonymity (note: anonymity, not privacy, reddit cannot be made private, but you can take steps to insulate the account from your true identity) for most threat models
My bad, I assumed people here cared more about privacy than entertainment.
Along those lines, I have not logged into Reddit for years except to delete my old posts when I first started down my privacy journey. However, I have not yet deleted my account fully, as I would like to avoid having to age verify/handover more PII if I were ever to need a Reddit account again.
We have folks from all walks of life, across all kinds of threat models. Privacy is a spectrum. Absolutist approaches only serve to make privacy less accessible
I generally agree with your outlook. But I also know there is/will be a privacy novice reading this thread, who canât fathom life without their favorite reddit community - I would hate for them to abandon their privacy journey, under the belief that âone cannot find privacy while still using redditâ.
Abandoning the amoral tech giant platforms should be everyoneâs goal, but donât be dissuaded if you canât jump in the deep end immediately. Explore alternatives like Lemmy. See what you can do without. Implement the mitigations I listed above. Every small bit of data or activity you can withhold from the data brokers is a step in the right direction
I can agree with that. 
You can also delete your current account and create a throwaway that isnât linked to the inevitable tidbits of personal insights into your life you leave over time. Also, you can lurk without an account. Not only that, due to the gross deal they made with Google, you can simple use Google to search Reddit without going there.
I understand how difficult it is to leave. I joined Reddit right after it first appeared on the internet, so my account was very old. I did delete it though once I started caring more about my privacy than ties there.
I may do that: fully delete my account, and create a new one.
I just checked and I was wrong about reddit, requiring more information than I had already given them. Perhaps I was thinking of when they stopped allowing account creation without email accounts associated.
I will also say, I most often view reddit these days via brave searchâs âdiscussionsâ functionality.
Yeah, lurking is best really.
Most of the things I would go there for I can find on StackExchange/standalone forums anyway 
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Theyâve made it much harder to do this as well. Karma isnât the only metric they use. Now thereâs a Contributor Quality Score, which you canât see yourself (without an external tool), which is not just if youâre a spambot or not, itâs how much you grind reddit. I used to cycle through accounts in triplets: Run one, gently age a second, start a fresh one. When I throw away the oldest one, everything would get bumped up. I canât do that anymore. Accounts that are too old but not used enough get shadow-banned automatically in some subs.
Ironically, I stopped using reddit entirely because I couldnât participate in /r/privacy because of this hidden score.
Iâll second Lemmy and Piefed (federated to connect, use one or the other as you prefer the UI).
Not popular, but I just use topic specific discuss forumâs for everything