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Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by grawprog »

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…

>Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all the subreddits

I've found a lot of hobby specific subreddits or ones on niche topics tend to avoid that. Also, less popular niches or hobbies i've noticed tend to have more people that are actually interested in having decent conversations about said topics or hobbies.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by stingraycharles »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #19
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…

> I guess what I'm try to say is nothing will beat simply Google searching a topic and typing "reddit" afterwards to query some super insightful and awesome 5+ year old forum post on whatever the content is. Better yet, use site:reddit.com Reddit's search really needs some work. It's practically useless for me unless I am using old.reddit.com/. > There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration.…

> Reddit's search really needs some work. It's practically useless for me unless I am using old.reddit.com/.

I always thought that “Reddit search is bad” is pretty much as old as Reddit itself. I don’t think they ever seriously invested in that, for whatever reason.

Here’s a post from 8y ago where people were already accepting that it has been like that forever, and it hasn’t changed a lot ever since. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/146gop/why_does_...

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by newsbinator »

nikaspran wrote: post #16

On a related note, let me shill my side-project: https://nikas.praninskas.com/suggest-subreddit/ It suggests subreddits based on what you're already subscribed to.

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> Could not calculate similar subreddits, please refresh the page or try again later

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by silicon2401 »

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…

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'

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by philwelch »

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…

> Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all the subreddits (on both sides) to try to influence the general groupthink narrative/consensus. It's so disgustingly obvious but doesn't seem to be an issue for the team.

The only real solution for this is the same as any other social media, or even real life: accept that people live in non-overlapping bubbles and hang out in the bubbles you’re comfortable with or curious about.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by Kye »

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…

Most communities have a related subreddit where that sort of stuff is banned, but finding it usually requires spending enough time reading to see a mention 20 levels deep in an off-topic thread near the bottom. You might get lucky with the subreddit's wiki or sidebar if it has one.

The 3dprinting subreddit's sidebar links to this: https://old.reddit.com/user/Devtholt/m/3d_printing/

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by guavaNinja »

screye wrote: post #27

This is great for 2 reasons. 1. It helps newcomers to reddit find the familiar, popular and sanitized subs 2. None of my prized niche subreddits come up here. The entry barrier stays high and so does the content quality.

Though the first recommendation of it was r/funny
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