I feel like Reddit doesn't really have links anymore. The subreddits that have external links are usually spam subreddits which humans don't visit.
The human-inhabited subreddits seem to mostly be favoring selftext, images, youtube videos, maybe wikipedia, and possibly some image hosts (but they are falling out of favor since imgur turned to shit). Very rarely do they seem to link to other websites.
I don't think they're talking about links but about content. No need for real links when the content is within reddit. For instance, I've curated my subs to all my hobbies: farming, watch collecting, coffee stations, coffee in general, musician fan pages, etc and they're mostly very small and have content very much like the old web I grew up on.
I can get with that. I'd say it's mostly semantics because at the end of the day, we're just trying to find interesting content and both ways accomplish that but there's really no way to win that argument. Lol
