People do nearly everything in self interest. They want something and they try to get it. There may be some secondary justification, but it boils down to that.
Some people also believe the earth is flat, which is at a similar level of objective thinking.
IMO it’s healthier for people to be honest with themselves and embrace the morally grey vs theories that apply only in a vacuum where their actions have zero consequence or chance of negatively affecting someone else.
Depends on what you mean by socialism. All systems have upsides and downsides. Late stage capitalism in the US has a lot of downsides, but workers taking over the means of production does not have a good track record.
Power users are the ones who build value on reddit, so with their loss the standard users will get less out of reddit over time and likely use it less.
Can use prowlarr or jackett for that as well, but takes more setup