Comment by TFNA

For the last several years, I’ve created a new Reddit account, posted heavily, and then deleted it when I felt I needed a social-media break. Rinse and repeat. I’ve never had problems creating those new accounts or having them banned. You just need to verify your signup with some new email address, at some domain that isn’t already a known throwaway-email domain, and accept that some subs won’t show your comments until your account is a couple of weeks old.

But I definitely agree with you that the platform is finished now, even smaller subs that aren’t drawing so much surreptitious spam. The problem is that even if one uses Old Reddit, the vast majority of other posters are using the app. That tends to discourage substantial discussion or community, in favour of daft 140-character shit comments.