Your Reddit experience is very interesting. Because it highlights that there are many ways to market content to audiences outside of Hive. So in this case, Reddit is a great place for marketing short form content. And that's reflected in the view count recorded by PeakD.
In my case, I'm marketing long form content. And in my current projects, I'm using search engines. Especially Google and Bing.
So this shows how important it is to match your promotions to your target audience.
!BBH