Yes, Reddit is certainly unique! I'm often aggravated at the terrible things I see on there, level of discourse, stupid snarky crap, etc.. Hive-mind indeed but that's up to each of us to deal with in ourselves.

But I still go on every day, because there probably isn't a single time I go on there that I don't learn something new and interesting. Not another site I can say that about, even HN.