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Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by milkytron »

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.

There are negative sides of it and also positive sides. I find the more niche communities are genuinely helpful and insightful. A lot of the rest is echo chamber and meme sharing.

For example, subs for specific car models, bike models, locations (cities, towns, etc), homebrewing, will be full of people willing to help or provide information to help others out.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by auxym » 

  - r/Parenting is very high quality, for all you parents out there
  - a bunch of subreddits related to cycling, r/bicycling, r/cycling, r/xbiking, r/MTB, r/bikecommuting, r/bikepacking, r/bicycletouring
  - Finance stuff: r/PersonalFinanceCanada, r/leanfire, r/financialindependence
  - Photo: r/photography, r/photographs, r/darktable, r/FOSSPhotography, r/CineShots (cool one!)
  - Electronics: r/AskElectronics, r/PrintedCircuitBoard, r/Embedded
  - "Traditional" engineering (I'm a mech engineer): r/AskEngineers, r/Engineering, r/MechanicalEngineering, r/fea
  - r/EatcheapAndHealthy
  - r/functionalprint (inspiration for 3d printing stuff I do at work)
  - r/HomeImprovement and r/homeowners (newish homeowner, learning a lot)
  - r/knots
  - No programming or "tech" stuff (except r/nim), I get my fix from HN

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#23

Post by kleer001 »

dogswithjobs

MaliciousCompliance

upliftingnews

animalsbeingbros

humansbeingbros

programminghumor

Awwducational

SympatheticMonsters

pettyrevenge

prorevenge

nuclearrevenge

unclejokes

/r/

/r/

To those who complain that Reddit is garbage. Sure, the front page can be. But you can make your home page what you want it to be.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#24

Post by zote »

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.

May I have a list of those German subreddits.

Other than r/German and r/ich_el I only follow r/Mediathek

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

#25

Post by coder4life »

sph wrote: post #10
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…

I think it's crap in spots and noise has been going up for years. But after 14 years there, I don't have a decent alternative to it.

Other than HN, what's your alternative?

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by nicbou »

zote wrote: post #24
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.

May I have a list of those German subreddits. Other than r/German and r/ich_el I only follow r/Mediathek

tja is my favorite. There is also SchnitzelVerbrechen, MannausSachsen, de, Finanzen, wasletztepreis, 600euro and many more

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by jokoon »

I make heavy usage of multireddit.

I have four for cool images and art, two for funny things, one for discussion oriented subs, one for news, one for stupid edgy memes, and others for minor subs.

I could share a list later. I use each depending of my mood.

What's important for me is avoiding political drama, violence oriented subs or justice subs which have really disturbing content I don't need to see (car violence, street violence etc). It's difficult and requires time to evaluate each sub.

I have already left a sub because the content started to be too violent, for example /r/unexpected

My lists (you can create a multi and add them by pasting several lines)

https://pastebin.com/iPAWUzBk

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by schwartzworld »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #20
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 ma…

> to claim it's full of nazis and racism isn't really true

Maybe not, but the platform has a history of being sympathetic to extreme right wing / white supremacist causes while censoring leftist voices, reflecting the political views of Steve Huffman aka /u/spez.

Re: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

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Post by sph »

coder4life wrote: post #25
sph wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

I think it's crap in spots and noise has been going up for years. But after 14 years there, I don't have a decent alternative to it. Other than HN, what's your alternative?

You'll laugh but... Something Awful. Never used it back in the day, but there's something reassuring in memeing and talking about stuff with people in their 30s and 40s in a traditional forum, instead of college teens and astroturfed accounts in a competition of who can get the most karma.

That and a few other hobby specific forums that managed to stay alive until today.

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