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Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by koyote »

user00012-ab wrote: post #20

People keep saying how great Reddit is, but I tried signing up to a bunch of my "Niches" and all the posts where just low quality junk; for example every other post in the 3dprinting subreddit is just "MY FIRST PRINT!" or "I BOUGHT A THING!" and for some reason people think it's cute so they upvote it. EDC? here is another picture of my gun! Tech reddit; "here is a link to a medium post that you can't see unless you…

The "I BOUGHT A THING!" posts reek of astroturfing in my opinion; just browse /tea or /breadit and you'll see the same item posted every single week reach the top page.

I do wonder how many of them are actually sponsored/artificially promoted by the company's PR department vs just natural hive-mind. In the end it doesn't matter because the posts are of zero value...

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by sixo »

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #4

This is great and I wish this mentality was pushed earlier on reddit. There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really great back and forth being shared of individual's experiences in almost every single subreddit. Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all th…

Less astroturfing than being full of children.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by throaway46546 »

layer8 wrote: post #108
wfawejoiweoif wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"site:reddit.com" is significantly more burdensome to type than "reddit", particularly on phone keyboards. I use DDG, which simply doesn't handle just putting "reddit" at the end of things very well compared to google, and no mobile keyboard makes typing "site:reddit.com" easy given the punctuation and the auto-inserted spaces, so I typically just end up doing "reddit g!" to deal with it and just use google.

> "site:reddit.com" is significantly more burdensome to type than "reddit", particularly on phone keyboards. On iOS I use Text Replacement to replace (e.g.) "sr" by "site:reddit.com".

Clever... I might have to steal this one.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by ativzzz »

MattRix wrote: post #68
joshlemer wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a better place you go for your hobbies them, or do you just google " forum" to find the best discussion boards for each topic individually?

Not OP, but one modern option is Discord servers. There are lots of them these days on all kinds of topics.

IMO live chat is awful for community building, especially one with deep knowledge bases such as gardening. It's great for troubleshooting problems and asking questions, but it does not do a good job of retaining information, and it excludes people from obtaining information who are not there right now when the conversation is happening

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

antris wrote: post #52
silicon2401 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The politicization and trend towards political correctness on reddit has been a huge part of its decline. It's rare now to find places where one can simply discuss topics with objectivity and curiosity instead of threads revolving around virtue signaling or demonization of the 'other side'

Sure, nobody likes political correctness but without any controls on content on a public forum as a part of a ToS, nazis and other people who are desperate to express their hate, and even break the law and recruit others will eventually find it and spam the hell out of it. 4chan is a perfect example of what happens to an actually occasionally funny place that allows any kind of discussion "just for lulz". It's been a…

The problem with your desire to squelch nazis at all costs is that the tools for squelching nazis quickly get abused by labeling everything those possessing the tools don't like to be nazi content. Even if that weren't the case, you're infantilizing everyone else in the world, assuming that they're morons who will instantly start to genocide Jewish people because they saw some nazi babbling on about whatever it is that nazis babble on about. You're giving tremendous power to nazis and being incredibly insulting to pretty much everybody else.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by nickysielicki »

user00012-ab wrote: post #20

People keep saying how great Reddit is, but I tried signing up to a bunch of my "Niches" and all the posts where just low quality junk; for example every other post in the 3dprinting subreddit is just "MY FIRST PRINT!" or "I BOUGHT A THING!" and for some reason people think it's cute so they upvote it. EDC? here is another picture of my gun! Tech reddit; "here is a link to a medium post that you can't see unless you…

I think this is a good take. What killed reddit was ultimately the proliferation of imgur (and image previews/quick-views for images). There was a dramatic shift from a primarily-text platform to a primarily-image platform, and that's why there's so much meme-heavy content.

When someone talks about a "good" subreddits, they probably mean that it's mostly text-based. /r/fpga and /r/amateurradio are two that come to mind for me.

Overall, I agree with what you're saying though; I no longer have an account and don't miss it at all.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by AussieWog93 »

antris wrote: post #52
silicon2401 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The politicization and trend towards political correctness on reddit has been a huge part of its decline. It's rare now to find places where one can simply discuss topics with objectivity and curiosity instead of threads revolving around virtue signaling or demonization of the 'other side'

Sure, nobody likes political correctness but without any controls on content on a public forum as a part of a ToS, nazis and other people who are desperate to express their hate, and even break the law and recruit others will eventually find it and spam the hell out of it. 4chan is a perfect example of what happens to an actually occasionally funny place that allows any kind of discussion "just for lulz". It's been a…

>barely anyone remembers how it was before the nazis came in.

I remember it. A non-negligible part of the traffic was pedophiles posting LazyTown content, and users of /v/ would keep folders full of transsexual porn on their desktop just to derail threads they didn't like.

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