Yeah, there’s a big difference between “random country” and “home country”.
I experimented with this some time ago and failed because I didn’t have a credit card from the foreign country to pay with. I’m sure this can be circumvented with some effort, but it’s not trivial.
That was nice but early reddit days, before subreddits, were the best days of the Internet.
Hot take: their browser is good.
Homelessness.
Billionaires.
War.
Magic, aka science and technology.
Both perspectives are defensible. The question could be interpreted generally on its own, or in the context of OP’s new-user experience. Personally I would lean towards the latter, but that makes an assumption that the] look