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Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by 1337biz »

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…

Reddit has become a long-form of Twitter. An endless circle of pandering to the same claqueurs. It is so tedious.

My time spent on Reddit has dropped massively over the last months. And I moved back to 4chan. It is so refreshing to see raw and uncensored communication. Even if 4chan often borders on insanity, it feels so much more honest and real than the cleansed cliques of sameness.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#82

Post by kart23 »

door101 wrote: post #57
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…

> There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration. People say this, but this is also when Reddit was the largest place for underage "softcore" pornography on the internet. It was one of the first things you saw when you google searched "reddit"

reddit is still like half porn. It was so bad they stopped showing NSFW content on r/all, before the change if you sorted by new, literally half the posts were marked NSFW.

https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lhnvok/removing_...

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#83

Post by Archelaos »

Philosophy should have a category of its own. It has only very little overlap with religion and almost none with spirituality. More or at least the same with art, reading, writing, education, history, culture, and science. And it touches most of the other topics somewhat as well.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#84

Post by tshaddox »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #35
stingraycharles wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.red…

I haven't seen a single social media or messaging platform where search didn't suck. Reddit search was bad, after redesign it's just hot garbage. Messenger search is unreliable and near-useless. Facebook search only worked well for the brief moment when they introduced "graph search", but that got quickly killed due to popular outrage. HN's bolted-on Algolia search is the least bad I've seen. And let's not even talk…

Slack’s search is excellent for me. I use it probably at least once a week to find something important for work. Granted, I’m usually searching for things that I know will be an exact substring match of the message I’m looking for, but for that it works great for me.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by atweiden »

armchairhacker wrote: post #71
antris wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I completely agree with you, we need content moderation and some political beliefs are just toxic. But Reddit just takes it to the absurd: - Automods which remove posts which simply contain certain words (e.g. "coronavirus", apparently because too many covid deniers). I get trying to restrict covid misinformation, but I'm not even exaggerating, they remove anything discussing covid even if it's supporting. - Mods rem…

Social bookmarking site moderation is in need of an overhaul. Moderators have turned into gatekeepers who can’t be unseated.

I’m dreaming of an “old Reddit”/HN-esque discussion board where moderation policies are opt-in. E.g. submit a thread to /r/bayarea, users compete to moderate e.g. ban/censor content. Users “follow” moderators to opt-in to their moderation policies. Basically upvoting/downvoting but for moderation itself.

Even better if a user’s moderation policies could be forked and lightly edited. I even think there’s room for a learning curve here, given how thoroughly social bookmarking sites have trounced traditional media.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#87

Post by ItsMonkk »

godelski wrote: post #53
caddemon wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what makes subreddits such a good idea IMO. Theoretically Reddit can be a massive community, while each subreddit can still remain niche. Then people can be connected to others across a number of topics without "polluting" spaces they are not interested in. Of course if you are interested in discussing a broad or popular topic like politics or the NBA, you will probably have to actually just find a smaller gr…

I think that the problem is that there's a fractal nature to this though. It then makes discoverability a much more complex problem as inflation continues.

The core problem with Reddit is that it calls them communities, but for 99% of the subreddits the name of the subreddit is based on the content, not the people. This leads Reddit into these fractal content relationships where you can only really discuss the things that have the goldilocks level of popularity. Looking to get some new headphones and aren't an audiophile? Sorry, headphones are to popular and the niche subreddit is to specific to you.

Hacker News on the other hand is based on Hackers, it's about the people. The topics are broad. When a new thing comes into existence that hackers are interested in, we don't have to move to a new place where maybe most of us don't realize it exists, we discuss it here and introduce it to others here. That's the correct view.

But the cause of the problem that reddit faces is population size. We want a small town community, not a community the size of New York City, where people are aggressive because they know they won't see that random person again. It's about seeing the same name, and treat those names with dignity. It's about caring about the people in the community.

So Hacker News in time will either deal with this problem or run into the same issue that large subreddits face. Once new users start learning behavior from other new users, there's no coming back from that. Eternal September is coming. I hope a resolution is discovered, because I really like it here.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#88

Post by salmo »

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 think this is the lifecycle of all 'nerd' sites. Slashdot went this way, Digg, Reddit, and we're seeing it here.

It starts with insightful stuff, knowledgeable people, real discourse. Reddit may have been special because at the time the community also prided itself on kindness.

But then 'nerds' go from people who have insight and opinions on esoteric topics, to people that like Marvel universe movies. Basically it gets popular and then it's no longer a niche group.

I think this happens with social media and "the kids" as well. As soon as your mom is on it, it's dead and you move on to the next one.

But we see it now. It's gotten to where most of the time I have to collapse the first few threads because they turn into fanboy arguments (pro/anti-apple, intel vs. AMD, copyleft vs liberal OSS licenses, etc, etc.).

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#89

Post by jcims »

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…

Generally avoiding subreddits with more than 100k members is the way to find decent content.

For really slow subreddits, just tack /comments on to the subreddit URL to get a listing of most recent comments instead of posts.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#90

Post by tryonenow »

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…

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