Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#1

Post by frans » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 3:58 AM UTC

My theory is "Since I like the HN community so much, what they find interesting on reddit will probably also interest me..."

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#2

Post by djhaskin987 » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 4:42 AM UTC

I don't. I follow a bunch of RSS feeds on Feedly instead. Blog posts sent to be of a much higher quality than random posts on Reddit.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#3

Post by coder4life » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 4:51 AM UTC

Enjoy my brain.

ABoringDystopia AITA artificial badUIbattles bestof bestofcraigslist chemicalreactiongifs chemistry chrome_extensions climate collapse compsci CoolCollections cpp css DadForAMinute datasets datingoverfifty datingoverforty dotnet DrugNerds Economics economy entp FairytaleasFuck Frontend Frugal funny googlehome HermanCainAward HighStrangeness howto javascript KamikazeByWords LateStageCarnism lolcats loljs longevity MakeMeSuffer math MomForAMinute muglife MurderedByWords NewsOfTheStupid node Nootropics nottheonion offbeat opensource papillon peopledyinginside philosophy ProgrammerHumor QAnonCasualties Qult_Headquarters rareinsults reactjs reduxjs religiousfruitcake sciences sex Showerthoughts singularity softwaregore Supplements threejs vegan veganfitness veganrecipes vuejs WatchRedditDie webdev weirddalle WordsWithFriends worldevents worldnews worldpolitics WTF

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#4

Post by Raed667 » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 5:48 AM UTC

reddit.com/r/1Password

reddit.com/r/Alfred

reddit.com/r/AskEngineers

reddit.com/r/AskHistorians

reddit.com/r/assholedesign

reddit.com/r/bouldering

reddit.com/r/BreadTube

reddit.com/r/C_Programming

reddit.com/r/climbing

reddit.com/r/ClimbingCircleJerk

reddit.com/r/Coffee

reddit.com/r/corgi

reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions

reddit.com/r/cycling

reddit.com/r/deemix

reddit.com/r/DistributedSystems

reddit.com/r/dune

reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents

reddit.com/r/evangelion

reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive

reddit.com/r/ffmpeg

reddit.com/r/firefox

reddit.com/r/france

reddit.com/r/GraphicsProgramming

reddit.com/r/javascript

reddit.com/r/laravel

reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism

reddit.com/r/mac

reddit.com/r/Metal

reddit.com/r/node

reddit.com/r/paris

reddit.com/r/Piracy

reddit.com/r/programming

reddit.com/r/ProtonMail

reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi

reddit.com/r/reactjs

reddit.com/r/recruitinghell

reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering

reddit.com/r/RunningShoeGeeks

reddit.com/r/scuba

reddit.com/r/selfhosted

reddit.com/r/ShittyLifeProTips

reddit.com/r/SQL

reddit.com/r/SuccessionTV

reddit.com/r/surdev

reddit.com/r/typescript

reddit.com/r/vegetarian

reddit.com/r/vim

reddit.com/r/webdev

reddit.com/r/WorkReform

reddit.com/r/WTYP

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#5

Post by wallrussianera » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 6:16 AM UTC

djhaskin987 wrote: post #2

I don't. I follow a bunch of RSS feeds on Feedly instead. Blog posts sent to be of a much higher quality than random posts on Reddit.

Do you mind sharing which feeds you follow? Asking as a new Feedly user.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#6

Post by MaxLeiter » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 6:59 AM UTC

/r/unresolvedmysteries and /r/HobbyDrama/ are my personal favorites

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#7

Post by djhaskin987 » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 7:27 AM UTC

wallrussianera wrote: post #5

djhaskin987 wrote: post #2

I don't. I follow a bunch of RSS feeds on Feedly instead. Blog posts sent to be of a much higher quality than random posts on Reddit.

Do you mind sharing which feeds you follow? Asking as a new Feedly user.

https://gist.github.com/djhaskin987/d6398bf0695f21d34808bfc0...

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#8

Post by nicbou » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 7:34 AM UTC

I follow German subreddits because it's good daily practice, and most of them are fun. SchnitzelVerbrechen is my latest discovery.

I specifically block all bullying, outrage porn, look-at-those-idiots subreddits, as well as all US politics. It makes the reddit experience much more pleasant.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#9

Post by Akronymus » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 8:54 AM UTC

nicbou wrote: post #8

I follow German subreddits because it's good daily practice, and most of them are fun. SchnitzelVerbrechen is my latest discovery. I specifically block all bullying, outrage porn, look-at-those-idiots subreddits, as well as all US politics. It makes the reddit experience much more pleasant.

/r/aeiou is the only german speaking subreddit I need.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#10

Post by sph » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 9:25 AM UTC

coder4life wrote: post #3

Enjoy my brain. ABoringDystopia AITA artificial badUIbattles bestof bestofcraigslist chemicalreactiongifs chemistry chrome_extensions climate collapse compsci CoolCollections cpp css DadForAMinute datasets datingoverfifty datingoverforty dotnet DrugNerds Economics economy entp FairytaleasFuck Frontend Frugal funny googlehome HermanCainAward HighStrangeness howto javascript KamikazeByWords LateStageCarnism lolcats lol…

> ABoringDystopia AITA HermanCainAward funny KamikazeByWords MakeMeSuffer MurderedByWords NewsOfTheStupid QAnonCasualties rareinsults Showerthoughts

Yeah... subs like these are the reason I've recently stopped visiting Reddit after more than a decade. Now that /r/popular includes many subs like these ones, Reddit has become an outrage factory, a karma whoring circus and dystopic popularity contest to get upvoted with the least amount of effort put into one's comment.

Here's the thing. Reddit has had its Eternal September 10 years ago, we need a name for the second phase where it's not just college kids but everybody and their twitter-using grandma start invading a platform, and it descends into complete social media chaos made of outrage, likes, upvotes, politics, and terrible, terrible discourse.

Maybe I'm just too old for that place, but I'm still into funny and/or irreverent content and memes. Reddit ain't it anymore. It's turned into an echo-chamber of idiocracy.

/rant