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Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

29 points by frans 4y ago

My theory is "Since I like the HN community so much, what they find interesting on reddit will probably also interest me..."

djhaskin987 4y ago
I don't. I follow a bunch of RSS feeds on Feedly instead. Blog posts sent to be of a much higher quality than random posts on Reddit.
- wallrussianera 4y ago
  Do you mind sharing which feeds you follow? Asking as a new Feedly user.
  - djhaskin987 4y ago
    https://gist.github.com/djhaskin987/d6398bf0695f21d34808bfc088dba57e https://gist.github.com/djhaskin987/d6398bf0695f21d34808bfc0...
    - wallrussianera 4y ago
      Thanks!
coder4life 4y ago
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 loljs longevity MakeMeSuffer math MomForAMinute muglife MurderedByWords NewsOfTheStupid node Nootropics nottheonion offbeat opensource papillon peopledyinginside philosophy ProgrammerHumor QAnonCasualties Qult_Headquarters rareinsults reactjs reduxjs religiousfruitcake sciences sex Showerthoughts singularity softwaregore Supplements threejs vegan veganfitness veganrecipes vuejs WatchRedditDie webdev weirddalle WordsWithFriends worldevents worldnews worldpolitics WTF
- sph 4y ago
  > 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 the least amount of effort put into one's comment. Here's the thing. Reddit has had its Eternal September 10 years ago, we need a name for the second phase where it's not just college kids but everybody and their twitter-using grandma start invading a platform, and it descends into complete social media chaos made of outrage, likes, upvotes, politics, and terrible, terrible discourse. Maybe I'm just too old for that place, but I'm still into funny and/or irreverent content and memes. Reddit ain't it anymore. It's turned into an echo-chamber of idiocracy. /rant
  - coder4life 4y ago
    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?
    - sph 4y ago
      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.
Raed667 4y ago
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.com/r/EngineeringStudents reddit.com/r/evangelion reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive reddit.com/r/ffmpeg reddit.com/r/firefox reddit.com/r/france reddit.com/r/GraphicsProgramming reddit.com/r/javascript reddit.com/r/laravel reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism reddit.com/r/mac reddit.com/r/Metal reddit.com/r/node reddit.com/r/paris reddit.com/r/Piracy reddit.com/r/programming reddit.com/r/ProtonMail reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi reddit.com/r/reactjs reddit.com/r/recruitinghell reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering reddit.com/r/RunningShoeGeeks reddit.com/r/scuba reddit.com/r/selfhosted reddit.com/r/ShittyLifeProTips reddit.com/r/SQL reddit.com/r/SuccessionTV reddit.com/r/surdev reddit.com/r/typescript reddit.com/r/vegetarian reddit.com/r/vim reddit.com/r/webdev reddit.com/r/WorkReform reddit.com/r/WTYP
- quickthrower2 4y ago
MaxLeiter 4y ago
/r/unresolvedmysteries and /r/HobbyDrama/ are my personal favorites
nicbou 4y ago
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.
- Akronymus 4y ago
  /r/aeiou is the only german speaking subreddit I need.
- lostinenigma 4y ago
  How do you block all of the stuff?
  - nicbou 4y ago
    It's in the home page sidebar on old.reddit.com, or perhaps on /r/all only.
- zote 4y ago
  May I have a list of those German subreddits. Other than r/German and r/ich_el I only follow r/Mediathek
  - nicbou 4y ago
    tja is my favorite. There is also SchnitzelVerbrechen, MannausSachsen, de, Finanzen, wasletztepreis, 600euro and many more
ponyous 4y ago
I use this multireddit 99% of the time r/commandline+neovim+tmux+vim
dcminter 4y ago
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!"
- andrei_says_ 4y ago
  r/specializedtools is a bit like that but focused on tools. Lots of ingenuity and aha moments.
BlameKaneda 4y ago
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
- Dracophoenix 4y ago
  If you enjoy mid-century modern, you'll probably like r/malelivingspace
NibLer 4y ago
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.
lakomen 4y ago
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.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
  > 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.
  - schwartzworld 4y ago
    > 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.
    - asynchronyse 4y ago
      It's almost funny how both sides of the political spectrum think their voices are being suppressed
- milkytron 4y ago
  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.
auxym 4y ago
- 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
kleer001 4y ago
dogswithjobs MaliciousCompliance upliftingnews animalsbeingbros humansbeingbros programminghumor Awwducational SympatheticMonsters pettyrevenge prorevenge nuclearrevenge unclejokes /r/<CityILiveIn> /r/<StateILiveIn> 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.
jokoon 4y ago
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 https://pastebin.com/iPAWUzBk
coffeekitkat 4y ago
- /r/unixporn - /r/linuxmint - /r/sffpc - /r/nr200 - /r/StardewValley - /r/MadeMeSmile - /r/aww - /r/funny - /r/AITA - /r/tifu
steve_john 4y ago
I follow many sub reddit and those are related to the saas products, lead generation and marketing.

29 points by frans 4y ago

My theory is "Since I like the HN community so much, what they find interesting on reddit will probably also interest me..."

djhaskin987 4y ago

I don't. I follow a bunch of RSS feeds on Feedly instead. Blog posts sent to be of a much higher quality than random posts on Reddit.

wallrussianera 4y ago
Do you mind sharing which feeds you follow? Asking as a new Feedly user.
- djhaskin987 4y ago
  https://gist.github.com/djhaskin987/d6398bf0695f21d34808bfc088dba57e https://gist.github.com/djhaskin987/d6398bf0695f21d34808bfc0...
  - wallrussianera 4y ago
    Thanks!

coder4life 4y ago

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 loljs longevity MakeMeSuffer math MomForAMinute muglife MurderedByWords NewsOfTheStupid node Nootropics nottheonion offbeat opensource papillon peopledyinginside philosophy ProgrammerHumor QAnonCasualties Qult_Headquarters rareinsults reactjs reduxjs religiousfruitcake sciences sex Showerthoughts singularity softwaregore Supplements threejs vegan veganfitness veganrecipes vuejs WatchRedditDie webdev weirddalle WordsWithFriends worldevents worldnews worldpolitics WTF

sph 4y ago
> 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 the least amount of effort put into one's comment. Here's the thing. Reddit has had its Eternal September 10 years ago, we need a name for the second phase where it's not just college kids but everybody and their twitter-using grandma start invading a platform, and it descends into complete social media chaos made of outrage, likes, upvotes, politics, and terrible, terrible discourse. Maybe I'm just too old for that place, but I'm still into funny and/or irreverent content and memes. Reddit ain't it anymore. It's turned into an echo-chamber of idiocracy. /rant
- coder4life 4y ago
  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?
  - sph 4y ago
    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.

Raed667 4y ago

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.com/r/EngineeringStudents reddit.com/r/evangelion reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive reddit.com/r/ffmpeg reddit.com/r/firefox reddit.com/r/france reddit.com/r/GraphicsProgramming reddit.com/r/javascript reddit.com/r/laravel reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism reddit.com/r/mac reddit.com/r/Metal reddit.com/r/node reddit.com/r/paris reddit.com/r/Piracy reddit.com/r/programming reddit.com/r/ProtonMail reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi reddit.com/r/reactjs reddit.com/r/recruitinghell reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering reddit.com/r/RunningShoeGeeks reddit.com/r/scuba reddit.com/r/selfhosted reddit.com/r/ShittyLifeProTips reddit.com/r/SQL reddit.com/r/SuccessionTV reddit.com/r/surdev reddit.com/r/typescript reddit.com/r/vegetarian reddit.com/r/vim reddit.com/r/webdev reddit.com/r/WorkReform reddit.com/r/WTYP

quickthrower2 4y ago

MaxLeiter 4y ago

/r/unresolvedmysteries and /r/HobbyDrama/ are my personal favorites

nicbou 4y ago

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.

Akronymus 4y ago
/r/aeiou is the only german speaking subreddit I need.
lostinenigma 4y ago
How do you block all of the stuff?
- nicbou 4y ago
  It's in the home page sidebar on old.reddit.com, or perhaps on /r/all only.
zote 4y ago
May I have a list of those German subreddits. Other than r/German and r/ich_el I only follow r/Mediathek
- nicbou 4y ago
  tja is my favorite. There is also SchnitzelVerbrechen, MannausSachsen, de, Finanzen, wasletztepreis, 600euro and many more

ponyous 4y ago

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

dcminter 4y ago

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!"

andrei_says_ 4y ago
r/specializedtools is a bit like that but focused on tools. Lots of ingenuity and aha moments.

BlameKaneda 4y ago

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

Dracophoenix 4y ago
If you enjoy mid-century modern, you'll probably like r/malelivingspace

NibLer 4y ago

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.

lakomen 4y ago

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.

Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
> 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.
- schwartzworld 4y ago
  > 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.
  - asynchronyse 4y ago
    It's almost funny how both sides of the political spectrum think their voices are being suppressed
milkytron 4y ago
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.

auxym 4y ago

- 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

kleer001 4y ago

dogswithjobs MaliciousCompliance upliftingnews animalsbeingbros humansbeingbros programminghumor Awwducational SympatheticMonsters pettyrevenge prorevenge nuclearrevenge unclejokes /r/<CityILiveIn> /r/<StateILiveIn> 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.

jokoon 4y ago

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 https://pastebin.com/iPAWUzBk

coffeekitkat 4y ago

- /r/unixporn - /r/linuxmint - /r/sffpc - /r/nr200 - /r/StardewValley - /r/MadeMeSmile - /r/aww - /r/funny - /r/AITA - /r/tifu

steve_john 4y ago

I follow many sub reddit and those are related to the saas products, lead generation and marketing.