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One healthy way to consume Reddit that I recently learned about is creating a "custom feed" (see left margin of new UI). You can just add subs that are of inte

One healthy way to consume Reddit that I recently learned about is creating a "custom feed" (see left margin of new UI). You can just add subs that are of interest that lack the torrent of bad news and only ever visit that custom feed. It doesn't ever algorithmically add posts from subs you don't manually include, as far as I've seen.

boringg 2y ago
User groups you would be interested in get hijacked by whatever the overall sentiment of Reddit is. Threads that aren't political suddenly get political for no reason. It's completely dead in there - content quality is brutally low.
- awfulneutral 2y ago
  I just bookmark subreddits for things I'm interested in, and visit them individually. I hardly ever see any political content doing that.
  - bombcar 2y ago
    The key is to stay in smaller, dedicated subreddits and avoid anything remotely popular or generic.
  - JKCalhoun 2y ago
    r/localllama, r/bambulabs ... Politics has a way of creeping in.
  - lmm 2y ago
    Politicisation happens, though slowly. Therewasanattempt used to be funny pictures/videos and is now purely TDS. My city's sub used to have useful local content and is now about 50% national politics.
- tacticalturtle 2y ago
  The wave of X bans was so frustrating. Particularly for sports subreddits where that’s where all of the breaking news and team announcements happen. In fact NFL teams are specifically banned from having bluesky accounts as an official media channel, and r/nfl still banned X/Twitter. sigh
  - nmfisher 2y ago
    Why are NFL teams banned from having an official account on Bluesky?
    - tacticalturtle 2y ago
      It’s not an “approved social media site”: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/patriots-say-nfl-wont-allow-teams-to-be-on-bluesky-yet https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/new... Presumably there’s some money that needs to change hands between the NFL and a social media site.
matwood 2y ago
> You can just add subs that are of interest that lack the torrent of bad news and only ever visit that custom feed. I still use old.reddit and this is the only way I've ever used Reddit. My homepage only shows me posts from Reddits I follow and nothing else. I don't see all the craziness people here are talking about.
- roelschroeven 2y ago
  Yes, that's exactly the same as what I do. When I tried new reddit, it looked awful to use and look at, so I always stayed at old reddit. Like you I don't see any of the crazy stuff. Just discussions in the subreddits I follow.
stevage 2y ago
Yeah I just use old Reddit, which still works like that. Cannot stand unsolicited content.

boringg 2y ago

User groups you would be interested in get hijacked by whatever the overall sentiment of Reddit is. Threads that aren't political suddenly get political for no reason. It's completely dead in there - content quality is brutally low.

awfulneutral 2y ago
I just bookmark subreddits for things I'm interested in, and visit them individually. I hardly ever see any political content doing that.
- bombcar 2y ago
  The key is to stay in smaller, dedicated subreddits and avoid anything remotely popular or generic.
- JKCalhoun 2y ago
  r/localllama, r/bambulabs ... Politics has a way of creeping in.
- lmm 2y ago
  Politicisation happens, though slowly. Therewasanattempt used to be funny pictures/videos and is now purely TDS. My city's sub used to have useful local content and is now about 50% national politics.
tacticalturtle 2y ago
The wave of X bans was so frustrating. Particularly for sports subreddits where that’s where all of the breaking news and team announcements happen. In fact NFL teams are specifically banned from having bluesky accounts as an official media channel, and r/nfl still banned X/Twitter. sigh
- nmfisher 2y ago
  Why are NFL teams banned from having an official account on Bluesky?
  - tacticalturtle 2y ago
    It’s not an “approved social media site”: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/patriots-say-nfl-wont-allow-teams-to-be-on-bluesky-yet https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/new... Presumably there’s some money that needs to change hands between the NFL and a social media site.

matwood 2y ago

> You can just add subs that are of interest that lack the torrent of bad news and only ever visit that custom feed. I still use old.reddit and this is the only way I've ever used Reddit. My homepage only shows me posts from Reddits I follow and nothing else. I don't see all the craziness people here are talking about.

roelschroeven 2y ago
Yes, that's exactly the same as what I do. When I tried new reddit, it looked awful to use and look at, so I always stayed at old reddit. Like you I don't see any of the crazy stuff. Just discussions in the subreddits I follow.

stevage 2y ago

Yeah I just use old Reddit, which still works like that. Cannot stand unsolicited content.