Yo, i think there is still a big diff between hive and reddit.

ADS, here everything is free (funded by dhf aka inflation) and distributed to quite literally anyone.
On the other hand reddit give back nothing, an interesting way to make it sustainable would be to implement ads revenue.

Ads revenue = 100$ on monday
Then all post from monday = 100$ / total views / post views

and boom you receive a token backed by value. Then simply remplace views by XYZ token and give 50% to creator and 50% to redear or smth like that.

Only downside is that the token is price locked, is it that bad ?