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Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by ponyous » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 10:08 AM UTC

I use this multireddit 99% of the time r/commandline+neovim+tmux+vim

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by dcminter » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 10:46 AM UTC

I'm a big fan of /r/whatisthisthing

For the easy stuff that I might know it's always long-since identified by the time I look at it. The hard stuff is usually either some corroded lump of metal from a magnet fisher that could be anything, or something truly obscure.

Plus it's fairly often enlivened by the answer "It's live ordnance, put it down and call the authorities, no don't try and unscrew that bit, it's the fuse!"

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by andrei_says_ » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 10:52 AM UTC

dcminter wrote: post #12

I'm a big fan of /r/whatisthisthing For the easy stuff that I might know it's always long-since identified by the time I look at it. The hard stuff is usually either some corroded lump of metal from a magnet fisher that could be anything, or something truly obscure. Plus it's fairly often enlivened by the answer "It's live ordnance, put it down and call the authorities, no don't try and unscrew that bit, it's the fus…

r/specializedtools is a bit like that but focused on tools. Lots of ingenuity and aha moments.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by lostinenigma » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 11:03 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.

How do you block all of the stuff?

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by quickthrower2 » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 11:10 AM UTC

Raed667 wrote: post #4

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.c…

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Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by nicbou » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 12:28 PM UTC

lostinenigma wrote: post #14

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.

How do you block all of the stuff?

It's in the home page sidebar on old.reddit.com, or perhaps on /r/all only.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by BlameKaneda » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

For me personally, the niche subreddits beat the popular ones any day of the week.

To name a few:

- AskAnAmerican - Interesting to get American and non-American perspectives on things, for good and bad.

- corgi - Self-explanatory.

- Eldenring

- ExperiencedDevs

- news - It's a popular subreddit and therefore filled with lots of crap, but I like to get a birds eye view of what's happening.

- ShitPostCrusaders - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure shitposts

- dadswhodidnotwantpets

- EatSandwiches

- Mid_Century - Furniture and art

- oldmaps - I love antique maps.

- vexillology - I also love flags.

- specializedtools

- UnresolvedMysteries

- WTFaucet - Strange faucets.

- taskmaster - Dedicated to the British panel show

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by NibLer » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

I try to keep it to a minimum, just a general ones about Python, Linux, etc. I've noticed that it is a rabbit hole. If I stay to long on Reddit I lose track of time.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by lakomen » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 2:52 PM UTC

Reddit is trash full with bigotry, nazis, racism and stupidity. I avoid it as much as I can. It's worse than Facebook. Since forums no longer seem to be a thing Google likes It's been placing Reddit results on top of search results. They usually are a waste of time and source of anger to click.

I avoid it. The thought police is very real there. It's an awful place.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 3:03 PM UTC

lakomen wrote: post #19

Reddit is trash full with bigotry, nazis, racism and stupidity. I avoid it as much as I can. It's worse than Facebook. Since forums no longer seem to be a thing Google likes It's been placing Reddit results on top of search results. They usually are a waste of time and source of anger to click. I avoid it. The thought police is very real there. It's an awful place.

> Reddit is trash full with bigotry, nazis, racism and stupidity.

Do you go to political subs and sort by controversial all the time or something? Do you browse using /r/all, /r/popular, or just not logged in?

I spend a lot of time on reddit, and to claim it's full of nazis and racism isn't really true unless you're going out of your way to find it. I'm not denying they exist, but they're just not as common as you make it out to be.