I think it's the other way around, in that people don't like to hear how Reddit has become important due to the death of independent forums and the degree to which information has become concentrated on the site.
The death of independent forums has been greatly exaggerated.
Of all the forums I used to be active in, many are still active. The ones that died did so because the community died (i.e. they did not shift to Reddit and the like).
Reddit is great simply because it allowed anyone to create a community. No need to get a LAMP stack and deal with security vulnerabilities in your forum SW.
These days you have Lemmy and its ilk. Much higher barrier than the old LAMP stack, but also much superior to it. I do hope it takes off.
