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Can any HN/reddit folks recommend some interesting and useful subreddits? Whenever I stumble across a link to reddit I am not impressed with the level discussio

by dfc 13y ago

Can any HN/reddit folks recommend some interesting and useful subreddits? Whenever I stumble across a link to reddit I am not impressed with the level discussions. I have tried a number of different subreddits across a wide range (this is a wide net: anything from Call of Duty to Woodworking to Security) of topics and I usually find inane chatter or comments with nothing more than a link to the latest animated gif of a duck expressing gratitude. Where are the gems I am missing?

hornd 13y ago
What you said is sadly true for many subreddits. I can offer up /r/askhistorians as a counter-example though: a very well moderated subreddit with excellent historical discussions.
- Cowen 13y ago
  /r/askhistorians and /r/askscience are some of my favorite subreddits if only for the way that they emphasize level-headed discussion instead of just memes and overly-polarizing comments. Just yesterday, /r/askhistorians had a question about Mother Theresa and it was one of the most level-headed discussions of her and her legacy I've ever seen. Especially since her death she's been almost the definition of a polarizing figure: people see her as either a saint or a sadist. They rarely acknowledge any middle ground. Also, the hottest threads on those subreddits are almost always fresh things that you've never thought of before and it's very interesting to hear the answer from someone who studies the field in-depth (and provides sources!)
cupcake-unicorn 13y ago
I second that. You just can't get the same quality level of comments that you can at HN, and I'm often shocked and horrified at what's going on there...Not to mention the whole /r/creepshots thing. I feel like it used to be a much higher standard, but is quickly becoming the new 4chan...
- adriand 13y ago
  > I feel like it used to be a much higher standard, but is quickly becoming the new 4chan... I joined Reddit seven years ago (http://www.reddit.com/user/adrian/ http://www.reddit.com/user/adrian/) and I started finding it stupid and annoying approximately five years ago. Until this story got posted I can't even remember the last time I bothered logging in. It's terrible.
  - cupcake-unicorn 13y ago
    Glad it's not just me. I never even really got into it back in the day, but at least I wasn't wary of it, and now it's just...wow. I made the mistake of checking out my local city's reddit IRC channel and was greeted "hey faggot lol" or something like that O_O
- starky 13y ago
  I definitely agree that the standard of the comments and articles used to be significantly higher. I definitely see a lot of parallels between the comments on HN currently and those on Reddit 5-6 years ago. Luckily it seems like HN resists the negative change that happened (I saw it most when Imgur was created).
- noselasd 13y ago
  The trick is to just subscribe to the sub-reddits that interests you, and is not filled with drama or useless stuff and people. e.g. steer away from r/news, r/worldnews, r/pics, r/politics and similar. Subscribe to the more specialized topics that interests you.
wasd 13y ago
It really depends on what you're looking for. Subreddits are communities, not TV channels. I could give you my top 10 but you might them all inane. I think one of the fundamental problems with is the on boarding process. Without a lot of dedication and searching, you probably won't find subreddits that interest you. I recommend starting with your local community. Try your former college and the city you live in.
- dfc 13y ago
  I understand your analogy to interesting TV channels but I do not think it applies to inane chatter. I might not enjoy cross stitching but I could still be impressed by the vibrant discussions about new sewing techniques and a lack of comments with nothing more than "This!" or "MOAR" or a link to an animated gif of a happy kitten and a ball of yarn. Being interested in a subject is not enough to keep me coming back if the SNR is low. What are your favorite subreddits?
  - wasd 13y ago
    In no particular order here are some subreddits that I enjoy. I've omitted ones that have too many image macros (memes) or little traffic. I aimed to include as many that are easy to "surf". http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience http://www.reddit.com/r/theoryofreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/theoryofreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal http://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads http://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads - has a lot of image macros but a must if you're into hip hop I don't regularly peruse iama but the quality of amas have been getting better. You should search for the high profile ones and check them out. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
minimaxir 13y ago
It's interesting how the Reddit hivemind tries to reconcile images and low-quality content. Case in point, /r/atheism recently banned direct links to images, requiring users to put links to them in self posts instead (where they would earn no link Karma). A mass exodus ensued due to these "two-click memes" to /r/atheismrebooted. Which subsequently imploded due to low-quality content and bad moderation. Reddit drama is actually quite revealing.
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago
  Drama... /r/pyongyang is a joke subreddit where users are banned immediately if they don't tow the DPRK party line and ingratiate themselves with the Kims. OK, this is good for a 30 second laugh, but /r/conservative is mostly the same way! I guess conservatives feel they are in a siege with the rest of left-leaning (6% of US adults) reddit that they ban anyone who might seems not to toe the line. On the other hand, /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians are of amazing high quality. There is tons to learn in many gems subreddits like these ones.
  - dhughes 13y ago
    Yes /r/askscience is great but I find there can be a lot of drama at /r/askhistorians there seems to be a strong clique of users and heavy-handed, strange moderation.
  - danjayh 13y ago
    *toe the DPRK party line
- zalzane 13y ago
  Reddit produces so much drama it's ridiculous. I use to think 4chan was a big catalyst for drama, but then reddit rolls around and resets the standard. Between rage over shill moderators on meme subreddits to accusing innocent people of being involved in the boston bombings thanks to their 'amateur internet investigative force', reddit is able to sate even the most greedy drama-lover's hunger.
- ihuman 13y ago
pornsrus 13y ago
Don't bother. I quit reddit twice in 6 years due to its low quality. The only subreddit I still might read is /r/nosleep which is for horror/suspense stories. Even the quality there is going downhill fast after 1000vultures and bloodstains stopped posting.
bdcravens 13y ago
/r/programming is good in that most of its links you've already seen on HN - there's less churn, and it's less ephemeral than HN. (Links persist at the top for days rather than less than 24 hours) Not better than HN, but if HN had a "best of the week", it'd closely mirror /r/programming.
- erik 13y ago
  HN actually does have a "best recent" page. https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best
  - Yhippa 13y ago
    How on earth did you find this? This should be a permanent navigation link.
    - erik 13y ago
      In the footer of the page, there is a lists link. The lists page links to the best page, and a few others. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
  - bdcravens 13y ago
    Awesome - I hadn't noticed that. That said, /r/programming does for the most part filter out the sociopolitical topics that come up on HN, focusing more on "hacker" news. :-)
FraaJad 13y ago
I love the /r/nfl (American Football) subreddit. It is one of the better moderated and informative subreddits if you are into American football. Almost all my knowledge of Am.Football can be sourced to that subreddit.
- Puer 13y ago
  I don't think I included this one my list either, but I agree. I'll also give a plug to r/soccer. If you follow the games then those subreddits are actually incredibly useful and a huge amount of fun, as they usually have "game threads" for each match where you can see the reaction of your fellow fans as you go along.
bluthru 13y ago
I've found the best subreddits to be the ones about hobbies or an activity you'd like to learn more about. I think of it less as a "community" and more of a good dump of information and news on a topic. Part of the problem is that it often just turns into instagram for _____. Examples: http://www.reddit.com/r/gardening http://www.reddit.com/r/gardening http://www.reddit.com/r/BBQ http://www.reddit.com/r/BBQ http://www.reddit.com/r/homebrewing http://www.reddit.com/r/homebrewing
- dfc 13y ago
  The woodworking reddit was very much like instagram. I was surprised by the amount of pictures of pieces people wanted to build or pieces they were given/paid someone to make.
atondwal 13y ago
Here's my subscription list, ranked by popularity (you might want to read it backwards...) http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tMxvZrRQ http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tMxvZrRQ
sampo 13y ago
r/rust is a nice place to keep up with what happens with the rust programming language. r/scala, sometimes quite quiet, has scala news. r/ocaml is very quiet, but probably still all you need to keep up with the news. (There are also other programming language subreddits.) r/programming is quite generic, HN is better, often links appear in both. r/math is sometimes okay-ish. If interested in politics and general discussions about Europe, r/europe is nice, they are running a series of threads on what people know about different countries. (Maybe other parts of the world also have active subreddits.) r/worldnews is a nice-ish feed of current news, r/news if you're American. r/truereddit values links to insightful articles, tries to be like the Reddit of old, but not particularly geek-oriented. r/depthhub collects links to insightful comments elsewhere in Reddit. r/metal used to run a series of "letter of the day", for bands the names of which begin with the letter, great way to discover new bands [1]. r/cocktails has pretty good quality mixology content. Some surprisingly specific hobbies sometimes have nice subreddit communities, like r/telecaster, r/bourbon, r/firefly. [1] archived here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/17ztap/metal_az_bonus_round_numbers_symbols/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/17ztap/metal_az_bonus...
dhughes 13y ago
/r/science is nice there are a lot (supposedly) of people who are experts in various scientific fields of study. If in doubt click 'random' to discover new sub-reddits.
- Puer 13y ago
  Disagree. r/science is awful and filled with a bunch of sensationalist headlines. r/askscience is much, much better because it's one of the few subs that's still very strictly moderated to remove innacurate or off topic comments.
pbj 13y ago
Not sure if any of these would be of interest, but I enjoy most of them and they're usually animated duck gif free: http://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/ - Intelligent and thought-provoking commentaries on life and culture. http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ - A place for visual representations of data http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn - Cool maps. Also tons of other neat similar photo subreddits in this format. http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit - Insightful articles http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub - Insightful comments on other subs http://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday http://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday - Features one random subreddit of the day http://www.reddit.com/r/trueaskreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/trueaskreddit - A slightly less dumb version of Askreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia - Interesting wiki articles http://www.reddit.com/r/IfYouLikeBlank http://www.reddit.com/r/IfYouLikeBlank - Find new music based on current things you like http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks+ted http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks+ted - Listen to people talk about topics http://www.reddit.com/r/tldr http://www.reddit.com/r/tldr - Daily digest of interesting posts from reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos - Videos of people making cool things http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing - Help redditors identify unknown objects http://www.reddit.com/r/internetIsBeautiful http://www.reddit.com/r/internetIsBeautiful - Find interesting websites
Puer 13y ago
r/askscience r/games r/comics r/diy r/historyporn r/photoshopbattles r/listentothis r/askhistorians r/depthhub r/history r/archlinux r/howto r/iwanttolearn r/foodforthought r/math r/learnprogramming r/oldschoolcool r/subredditoftheday r/thebestofamazon r/humanporn r/askculinary r/biology r/linguistics r/theoryofreddit r/chemistry r/japan r/truefilm r/buildapc r/penmanshipporn r/engineeringstudents r/askengineers r/sketchdaily r/colorizedhistory r/picrequests r/learnmath r/dailydouble r/massdrop r/hiphop101 These are some of the reddits I'm subbed to. The trick to reddit is to 1) unsubscribe from all of the default subs and 2) subscribe to small to medium discussion/activity based subs. Photoshopbattles has to be one of the best subreddits because it provides entertaining, new, creative content on a daily basis. Askhistorians is also incredibly interesting as it's usually pretty tightly moderated, meaning you won't find much BS in the comments. Find a general topic that interests you (music), then find smaller subreddits of those topics (K-pop, Hip-Hop, Trance...) The only problem with this is that I think the reddit admins changed it so only a certain amount of subreddits display on your frontpage at a given time (unless you have reddit gold). Sometimes I find myself missing a lot of content because I'm subscribed to hundreds of different subreddits, but there is an easy way around this (as the next button is unreliable and tends to display older links instead of different new ones): In your reddit preferences check the boxes that hide links you upvote/downvote and just vote on everything you see, even if you don't necessarily agree or disagree (or just hide it if you have "moral" problems with that). Every time you refresh the page you'll have new content.
- Pxtl 13y ago
  Iirc, it's a random selection of 50 of your subscribed subs, rotated every few minutes. Paying customers get 100.
duaneb 13y ago
/r/AskHistorians is my favorite, personally.

by dfc 13y ago

hornd 13y ago

What you said is sadly true for many subreddits. I can offer up /r/askhistorians as a counter-example though: a very well moderated subreddit with excellent historical discussions.

Cowen 13y ago
/r/askhistorians and /r/askscience are some of my favorite subreddits if only for the way that they emphasize level-headed discussion instead of just memes and overly-polarizing comments. Just yesterday, /r/askhistorians had a question about Mother Theresa and it was one of the most level-headed discussions of her and her legacy I've ever seen. Especially since her death she's been almost the definition of a polarizing figure: people see her as either a saint or a sadist. They rarely acknowledge any middle ground. Also, the hottest threads on those subreddits are almost always fresh things that you've never thought of before and it's very interesting to hear the answer from someone who studies the field in-depth (and provides sources!)

cupcake-unicorn 13y ago

I second that. You just can't get the same quality level of comments that you can at HN, and I'm often shocked and horrified at what's going on there...Not to mention the whole /r/creepshots thing. I feel like it used to be a much higher standard, but is quickly becoming the new 4chan...

adriand 13y ago
> I feel like it used to be a much higher standard, but is quickly becoming the new 4chan... I joined Reddit seven years ago (http://www.reddit.com/user/adrian/ http://www.reddit.com/user/adrian/) and I started finding it stupid and annoying approximately five years ago. Until this story got posted I can't even remember the last time I bothered logging in. It's terrible.
- cupcake-unicorn 13y ago
  Glad it's not just me. I never even really got into it back in the day, but at least I wasn't wary of it, and now it's just...wow. I made the mistake of checking out my local city's reddit IRC channel and was greeted "hey faggot lol" or something like that O_O
starky 13y ago
I definitely agree that the standard of the comments and articles used to be significantly higher. I definitely see a lot of parallels between the comments on HN currently and those on Reddit 5-6 years ago. Luckily it seems like HN resists the negative change that happened (I saw it most when Imgur was created).
noselasd 13y ago
The trick is to just subscribe to the sub-reddits that interests you, and is not filled with drama or useless stuff and people. e.g. steer away from r/news, r/worldnews, r/pics, r/politics and similar. Subscribe to the more specialized topics that interests you.

wasd 13y ago

It really depends on what you're looking for. Subreddits are communities, not TV channels. I could give you my top 10 but you might them all inane. I think one of the fundamental problems with is the on boarding process. Without a lot of dedication and searching, you probably won't find subreddits that interest you. I recommend starting with your local community. Try your former college and the city you live in.

dfc 13y ago
I understand your analogy to interesting TV channels but I do not think it applies to inane chatter. I might not enjoy cross stitching but I could still be impressed by the vibrant discussions about new sewing techniques and a lack of comments with nothing more than "This!" or "MOAR" or a link to an animated gif of a happy kitten and a ball of yarn. Being interested in a subject is not enough to keep me coming back if the SNR is low. What are your favorite subreddits?
- wasd 13y ago
  In no particular order here are some subreddits that I enjoy. I've omitted ones that have too many image macros (memes) or little traffic. I aimed to include as many that are easy to "surf". http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience http://www.reddit.com/r/theoryofreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/theoryofreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal http://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads http://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads - has a lot of image macros but a must if you're into hip hop I don't regularly peruse iama but the quality of amas have been getting better. You should search for the high profile ones and check them out. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/

minimaxir 13y ago

It's interesting how the Reddit hivemind tries to reconcile images and low-quality content. Case in point, /r/atheism recently banned direct links to images, requiring users to put links to them in self posts instead (where they would earn no link Karma). A mass exodus ensued due to these "two-click memes" to /r/atheismrebooted. Which subsequently imploded due to low-quality content and bad moderation. Reddit drama is actually quite revealing.

seanmcdirmid 13y ago
Drama... /r/pyongyang is a joke subreddit where users are banned immediately if they don't tow the DPRK party line and ingratiate themselves with the Kims. OK, this is good for a 30 second laugh, but /r/conservative is mostly the same way! I guess conservatives feel they are in a siege with the rest of left-leaning (6% of US adults) reddit that they ban anyone who might seems not to toe the line. On the other hand, /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians are of amazing high quality. There is tons to learn in many gems subreddits like these ones.
- dhughes 13y ago
  Yes /r/askscience is great but I find there can be a lot of drama at /r/askhistorians there seems to be a strong clique of users and heavy-handed, strange moderation.
- danjayh 13y ago
  *toe the DPRK party line
zalzane 13y ago
Reddit produces so much drama it's ridiculous. I use to think 4chan was a big catalyst for drama, but then reddit rolls around and resets the standard. Between rage over shill moderators on meme subreddits to accusing innocent people of being involved in the boston bombings thanks to their 'amateur internet investigative force', reddit is able to sate even the most greedy drama-lover's hunger.
ihuman 13y ago

pornsrus 13y ago

Don't bother. I quit reddit twice in 6 years due to its low quality. The only subreddit I still might read is /r/nosleep which is for horror/suspense stories. Even the quality there is going downhill fast after 1000vultures and bloodstains stopped posting.

bdcravens 13y ago

/r/programming is good in that most of its links you've already seen on HN - there's less churn, and it's less ephemeral than HN. (Links persist at the top for days rather than less than 24 hours) Not better than HN, but if HN had a "best of the week", it'd closely mirror /r/programming.

erik 13y ago
HN actually does have a "best recent" page. https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best
- Yhippa 13y ago
  How on earth did you find this? This should be a permanent navigation link.
  - erik 13y ago
    In the footer of the page, there is a lists link. The lists page links to the best page, and a few others. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
- bdcravens 13y ago
  Awesome - I hadn't noticed that. That said, /r/programming does for the most part filter out the sociopolitical topics that come up on HN, focusing more on "hacker" news. :-)

FraaJad 13y ago

I love the /r/nfl (American Football) subreddit. It is one of the better moderated and informative subreddits if you are into American football. Almost all my knowledge of Am.Football can be sourced to that subreddit.

Puer 13y ago
I don't think I included this one my list either, but I agree. I'll also give a plug to r/soccer. If you follow the games then those subreddits are actually incredibly useful and a huge amount of fun, as they usually have "game threads" for each match where you can see the reaction of your fellow fans as you go along.

bluthru 13y ago

I've found the best subreddits to be the ones about hobbies or an activity you'd like to learn more about. I think of it less as a "community" and more of a good dump of information and news on a topic. Part of the problem is that it often just turns into instagram for _____. Examples: http://www.reddit.com/r/gardening http://www.reddit.com/r/gardening http://www.reddit.com/r/BBQ http://www.reddit.com/r/BBQ http://www.reddit.com/r/homebrewing http://www.reddit.com/r/homebrewing

dfc 13y ago
The woodworking reddit was very much like instagram. I was surprised by the amount of pictures of pieces people wanted to build or pieces they were given/paid someone to make.

atondwal 13y ago

Here's my subscription list, ranked by popularity (you might want to read it backwards...) http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tMxvZrRQ http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tMxvZrRQ

sampo 13y ago

r/rust is a nice place to keep up with what happens with the rust programming language. r/scala, sometimes quite quiet, has scala news. r/ocaml is very quiet, but probably still all you need to keep up with the news. (There are also other programming language subreddits.) r/programming is quite generic, HN is better, often links appear in both. r/math is sometimes okay-ish. If interested in politics and general discussions about Europe, r/europe is nice, they are running a series of threads on what people know about different countries. (Maybe other parts of the world also have active subreddits.) r/worldnews is a nice-ish feed of current news, r/news if you're American. r/truereddit values links to insightful articles, tries to be like the Reddit of old, but not particularly geek-oriented. r/depthhub collects links to insightful comments elsewhere in Reddit. r/metal used to run a series of "letter of the day", for bands the names of which begin with the letter, great way to discover new bands [1]. r/cocktails has pretty good quality mixology content. Some surprisingly specific hobbies sometimes have nice subreddit communities, like r/telecaster, r/bourbon, r/firefly. [1] archived here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/17ztap/metal_az_bonus_round_numbers_symbols/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/17ztap/metal_az_bonus...

dhughes 13y ago

/r/science is nice there are a lot (supposedly) of people who are experts in various scientific fields of study. If in doubt click 'random' to discover new sub-reddits.

Puer 13y ago
Disagree. r/science is awful and filled with a bunch of sensationalist headlines. r/askscience is much, much better because it's one of the few subs that's still very strictly moderated to remove innacurate or off topic comments.

pbj 13y ago

Not sure if any of these would be of interest, but I enjoy most of them and they're usually animated duck gif free: http://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/ - Intelligent and thought-provoking commentaries on life and culture. http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ - A place for visual representations of data http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn - Cool maps. Also tons of other neat similar photo subreddits in this format. http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit - Insightful articles http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub - Insightful comments on other subs http://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday http://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday - Features one random subreddit of the day http://www.reddit.com/r/trueaskreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/trueaskreddit - A slightly less dumb version of Askreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia - Interesting wiki articles http://www.reddit.com/r/IfYouLikeBlank http://www.reddit.com/r/IfYouLikeBlank - Find new music based on current things you like http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks+ted http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks+ted - Listen to people talk about topics http://www.reddit.com/r/tldr http://www.reddit.com/r/tldr - Daily digest of interesting posts from reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos - Videos of people making cool things http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing - Help redditors identify unknown objects http://www.reddit.com/r/internetIsBeautiful http://www.reddit.com/r/internetIsBeautiful - Find interesting websites

Puer 13y ago

r/askscience r/games r/comics r/diy r/historyporn r/photoshopbattles r/listentothis r/askhistorians r/depthhub r/history r/archlinux r/howto r/iwanttolearn r/foodforthought r/math r/learnprogramming r/oldschoolcool r/subredditoftheday r/thebestofamazon r/humanporn r/askculinary r/biology r/linguistics r/theoryofreddit r/chemistry r/japan r/truefilm r/buildapc r/penmanshipporn r/engineeringstudents r/askengineers r/sketchdaily r/colorizedhistory r/picrequests r/learnmath r/dailydouble r/massdrop r/hiphop101 These are some of the reddits I'm subbed to. The trick to reddit is to 1) unsubscribe from all of the default subs and 2) subscribe to small to medium discussion/activity based subs. Photoshopbattles has to be one of the best subreddits because it provides entertaining, new, creative content on a daily basis. Askhistorians is also incredibly interesting as it's usually pretty tightly moderated, meaning you won't find much BS in the comments. Find a general topic that interests you (music), then find smaller subreddits of those topics (K-pop, Hip-Hop, Trance...) The only problem with this is that I think the reddit admins changed it so only a certain amount of subreddits display on your frontpage at a given time (unless you have reddit gold). Sometimes I find myself missing a lot of content because I'm subscribed to hundreds of different subreddits, but there is an easy way around this (as the next button is unreliable and tends to display older links instead of different new ones): In your reddit preferences check the boxes that hide links you upvote/downvote and just vote on everything you see, even if you don't necessarily agree or disagree (or just hide it if you have "moral" problems with that). Every time you refresh the page you'll have new content.

Pxtl 13y ago
Iirc, it's a random selection of 50 of your subscribed subs, rotated every few minutes. Paying customers get 100.

duaneb 13y ago

/r/AskHistorians is my favorite, personally.