I’d say it’s fine as long as you know where to draw the line and stop. Not everything can be rationalized or argumented away, sooner or later you’re going to hit someone’s emotional weak spot and make them uncomfortable since they won’t be able to separate it like you do.
This doesn’t apply to you specifically since I don’t know you well enough, but in my experience people who say “I have no filter, I say it the way it is and I will never apologize for it” are not doing it because it’s the right thing to do but rather because they can’t help themselves and it’s easier not to bother about how other people feel. I think we’d be all better off if we had a filter and weighted our words more carefully, especially on the internet where it’s so easy to just lash out. That doesn’t mean keeping your opinion to yourself and never speaking up of course.
Absolutely, I don’t miss 99% of reddit but I have to admit I miss the smaller communities. Most game subreddits I follow are small on reddit in the first place so none of them have moved elsewhere, most don’t even participate in the protests, the few that do just link to their discord instead. Many of these subreddits have devs commenting there as well so it’s not something that you can replace.