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Not tangible I guess, but HN gave me rest from Reddit's stupidity and incivility. I do want some social web-hangout, and migrated from one place to another—and
by aasasd 6y ago
Not tangible I guess, but HN gave me rest from Reddit's stupidity and incivility. I do want some social web-hangout, and migrated from one place to another—and while Reddit is (or was) better than what we have in my country, it's overrun by teens and tends to bring out the worst in them. HN has its share of dumb crowdthink, but the contrast with Reddit is illuminating, so that now I notice when I begin to act or think like people on Reddit do.
After this, going back to local sites where anger, trolling and fool-playing are just normal adult behavior, is outright painful.
- quickthrower2 6y agoThere are some good subreddits out there. r/experienceddevs springs to mind
- agumonkey 6y agoI scan Reddit wide but this sub I didn't know
- yamrzou 6y agor/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology come to mind as well.
- NathanielK 6y agoI enjoy Reddit, but it's just not designed for smaller communities in my opinion. The tricky thing with reddit is that it's algorithm tuned for a daily churn. A small sub, like the one you mentioned, may only have a couple good posts a week, but you will miss them if you don't check every day. If you only browse the frontpage of your subscribed subreddits, adding any popular subreddits tend to drown out the smaller ones.
- quickthrower2 6y agoI see. My habit is manually checking subs rather than relying on an aggregate or algorithmic view. I also sort by newest.
- aasasd 6y agoA couple workarounds for that: - Multireddits—you could put ‘slow’ subreddits into a multi that you'll check separately. - RSS feeds, if they still work.