The vast majority of Redditors are lurkers who barely post or comment, let alone upvote. If you lurk, that's just status quo, even if there are millions who vow to do the same. But as others have mentioned, you're boosting their active daily users which is a good look for their investors, and it costs them practically nothing to do.
If you want to be defiant and you must use Reddit, I think you can still mess up another of their metrics. Click every single ad you see so their ad-click conversion rate goes down.
The vast majority of Redditors are lurkers who barely post or comment, let alone upvote. If you lurk, that's just status quo, even if there are millions who vow to do the same. But as others have mentioned, you're boosting their active daily users which is a good look for their investors, and it costs them practically nothing to do.
If you want to be defiant and you must use Reddit, I think you can still mess up another of their metrics. Click every single ad you see so their ad-click conversion rate goes down.