[HN Gopher] Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche
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Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche
Author : thisissidhant
Score : 180 points
Date : 2021-05-26 17:59 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| ssivark wrote:
| This is very cool! I'd love to know what kind of data inputs you
| used for the recommendation engine.
|
| More generally, I think it would be really great to have
| collaborative filtering services for all kinds of interests
| (music, movies, books, forums, etc) independent of the mega-
| platforms which have significant biases in what content they
| peddle (often optimized so keenly to the point of being
| adversarial to users).
| DeanWormer wrote:
| This is a fun idea. I thought of a slightly different spin.
| Combine what Million Short does with search results (omits the
| top million results to help find things beyond the usual top
| results) with Reddit.
|
| Better discussions happen in the smaller subreddits, so I'd love
| a Million Short for Reddit that filters out the top subs and only
| leaves the more productive ones.
|
| https://millionshort.com/
| cjlm wrote:
| Also worth a look is this fascinating interactive map of reddit
| [0] from Anvaka [1]
|
| [0] https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit [1]
| https://twitter.com/anvaka
| me_bx wrote:
| Anvaka's subreddit graph tool is also awesome:
|
| https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=linux
| nikaspran wrote:
| On a related note, let me shill my side-project:
| https://nikas.praninskas.com/suggest-subreddit/
|
| It suggests subreddits based on what you're already subscribed
| to.
| newsbinator wrote:
| > An error has occurred
|
| > Could not calculate similar subreddits, please refresh the
| page or try again later
| plutonorm wrote:
| What I want is a big 5 personality test and test about my
| interests. Then I want to be shown where on the internet there
| are like minded people interested in what I am interested in. I
| want people who are highly agreeable, highly open and totally not
| conscientious and who want to discuss philosophy or mathematics
| or social change or whatever. Where are my people? Don't you want
| to find your people? Build my app for me. I don't have the
| time...
| ThalesX wrote:
| I've been telling my SO for the longest time that I long to
| find some similar people, but that must only mean that people
| such as myself are also lost on the internet trying to find
| their place, so the chance of me meeting myself is rather slim
| apart from an one-off HN or Reddit comment.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Reddit passed the cultural event horizon some years ago.
|
| The dominant form on reddit is the "meme" which (unlike joining a
| religion or revolutionary party) makes no demand that you
| understand what you're copying.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1LpXN4PO8U
|
| People on the Craiglist forum seem to be "there" more than
| redditors are even if I can't figure out how they bypass the
| spell checker to mess up simple words like "cow", "dog" and
| "pig".
| anotha1 wrote:
| Great! Reddit search sucks. site:reddit.com ftw. Will you be
| adding a search feature? Even just a simple auto-complete with
| all the tags you have would be great!
| thisissidhant wrote:
| I was planning on adding the search, but held it off before i
| could validate the need for it. I'm glad you liked it
| AnonHP wrote:
| Which category does one have to dig into to find subreddits for
| social groups that span many topics, say, for women
| (r/twoxchromosomes) or something like ask men (r/askmen)?
| thisissidhant wrote:
| You can check out the "History and Culture" Category. Under
| culture subCategory you will find tags that are broad and
| relate to the various cultures
| uxamanda wrote:
| This is cool! Would be nice to have a "last post" date or number
| of recent posts. A few I clicked on are dormant.
|
| (Also very minor, but looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/figma/
| is not a UI/UX subreddit, wasn't sure if there was a place to
| submit corrections on the site)
| thisissidhant wrote:
| Yes i agree, some of the subreddits may be old. Last post will
| be a good metric for this.
| screye wrote:
| This is great for 2 reasons.
|
| 1. It helps newcomers to reddit find the familiar, popular and
| sanitized subs
|
| 2. None of my prized niche subreddits come up here. The entry
| barrier stays high and so does the content quality.
| guavaNinja wrote:
| Though the first recommendation of it was r/funny
| dentemple wrote:
| /r/funny is how you teach people about the Unsubscribe button
| Archelaos wrote:
| Philosophy should have a category of its own. It has only very
| little overlap with religion and almost none with spirituality.
| More or at least the same with art, reading, writing, education,
| history, culture, and science. And it touches most of the other
| topics somewhat as well.
| atestu wrote:
| r/WikiLeaks is "Alt right"? Who does the tagging?
| gj0 wrote:
| This is really cool ! This solves a genuinely problem. I remember
| being stuck at reddit search for long hours while trying to find
| the perfect subreddit for posting some content.
|
| Thanks for this :)
| thisissidhant wrote:
| Glad you liked it :)
| WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote:
| This is great and I wish this mentality was pushed earlier on
| reddit.
|
| There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg
| migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really great
| back and forth being shared of individual's experiences in almost
| every single subreddit.
|
| Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and
| exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups
| in all the subreddits (on both sides) to try to influence the
| general groupthink narrative/consensus. It's so disgustingly
| obvious but doesn't seem to be an issue for the team.
|
| Maybe I am just getting old. I guess what I'm try to say is
| _nothing_ will beat simply Google searching a topic and typing
| "reddit" afterwards to query some super insightful and awesome 5+
| year old forum post on whatever the content is.
| grawprog wrote:
| >Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and
| exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political
| groups in all the subreddits
|
| I've found a lot of hobby specific subreddits or ones on niche
| topics tend to avoid that. Also, less popular niches or hobbies
| i've noticed tend to have more people that are actually
| interested in having decent conversations about said topics or
| hobbies.
| cpach wrote:
| Indeed!
|
| Example: The other day I had a question about Exchange Server
| client compatibility. I wanted a discussion about pros and
| cons, i.e. not a good fit for Stack Exchange since there's no
| obviously correct answer. So I googled for [?]exchange server
| subreddit[?]. And of course, there was an Exchange Server
| subreddit. Asked the question there and got lots of high-
| quality answers, zero bullshit. That's Reddit at it's best.
|
| PS. In order to save one's sanity, I encourage all redditors
| to use https://old.reddit.com/ exclusively.
| mdoms wrote:
| I have never found a hobby subreddit worth following. If I
| look at my hobbies like /r/simracing /r/gardening /r/welding
| /r/motorcycles an overwhelming (in the literal sense) number
| of posts are just lazy image posts of (in order of listed
| subs) a sim racing rig, a pile of vegetables, a nice bead and
| a motorcycle. A picture of an ordinary part of a hobby is not
| conducive to meaningful conversations on the hobby.
|
| Additionally I have found virtually all hobby subreddits are
| dominated by newbies to the hobby. This is especially
| pronounced on /r/motorcycles but appears to be general. Hobby
| subs are places where newbies hear newbies give advice and
| then pass that advice on to other newbies as if they were
| experienced.
|
| I keep seeing people say that niche hobby subs still have
| worthwhile discussions but I have yet to actually see this.
| grawprog wrote:
| Like i said, less popular topics and hobbies tend to have
| higher quality discussions. Gardening, welding and
| motorcycles are pretty popular topics.
|
| I tried looking around for a decent motorcycle sub, you're
| right that one lacks some alternatives. For gardening,
| maybe try more specific subs like for your local area or a
| specific kind of gardening, flowers or vegetables or
| whatever, just something more specific and niche than just
| gardening.
|
| For welding again, similar idea, look for more specific
| less general welding related topics that may have subs
| devoted to them.
|
| It may not work for all topics but generally i've found,
| the more specific and niche you get, the. better chance
| you'll find something decent.
|
| It's still just a chance, you may or may not be able to
| find what you're looking for, but this is generally what
| i've found.
| dentemple wrote:
| It probably depends on the hobby.
|
| /r/anime and /r/manga are pretty great when it comes to
| discussing active releases.
| joshlemer wrote:
| Is there a better place you go for your hobbies them, or do
| you just google "<my hobby> forum" to find the best
| discussion boards for each topic individually?
| MattRix wrote:
| Not OP, but one modern option is Discord servers. There
| are lots of them these days on all kinds of topics.
| mdoms wrote:
| Forums are dead so for modern hobbies like simracing I
| haven't found anything. I work on old cars so there are
| still great forums for that stuff, and gardening I have
| given up on online discussion content - it's mostly
| crappy sponsored content trying to sell you bullshit.
| Gardening content is best consumed in books and YouTube
| and ignore online discussion.
| MattRix wrote:
| I just mentioned it in another comment but Discord
| servers are one of the newest types of communities
| popping up (especially for younger folks, but they can be
| for people of any age). For example, here's one about
| gardening: https://discord.gg/D2kCbGY
| mdoms wrote:
| This is the worst possible outcome for hobby content. At
| least forum/reddit threads are searchable on the open web
| and likely to remain available at least for a while.
| silicon2401 wrote:
| The politicization and trend towards political correctness on
| reddit has been a huge part of its decline. It's rare now to
| find places where one can simply discuss topics with
| objectivity and curiosity instead of threads revolving around
| virtue signaling or demonization of the 'other side'
| antris wrote:
| Sure, nobody likes political correctness but without any
| controls on content on a public forum as a part of a ToS,
| nazis and other people who are desperate to express their
| hate, and even break the law and recruit others will
| eventually find it and spam the hell out of it. 4chan is a
| perfect example of what happens to an actually occasionally
| funny place that allows any kind of discussion "just for
| lulz". It's been a cesspool and barely anyone remembers how
| it was before the nazis came in. It's just how it works when
| the forum is public and there's no moderation. If you want
| good discussion without limits, I suggest joining smaller
| communities that are harder to flood in this way, or talk to
| people you know in real life.
| 1337biz wrote:
| Reddit has become a long-form of Twitter. An endless circle
| of pandering to the same claqueurs. It is so tedious.
|
| My time spent on Reddit has dropped massively over the last
| months. And I moved back to 4chan. It is so refreshing to
| see raw and uncensored communication. Even if 4chan often
| borders on insanity, it feels so much more honest and real
| than the cleansed cliques of sameness.
| tryonenow wrote:
| >nazis and other people who are desperate to express their
| hate, and even break the law and recruit others will
| eventually find it and spam the hell out of it. 4chan is a
| perfect example of what happens to an actually occasionally
| funny place that allows any kind of discussion "just for
| lulz".
|
| No, the problem is that right of center posts and comments
| are banned and cheaply and falsely dismissed as "nazi"
| ideology. The issue is exacerbated with the heavily
| politicized moderation. It's a self reinforcing bubble at
| this point.
|
| There is far more diverse discussion on 4chan. You may get
| shouted down, but you won't be banned or downvoted into
| oblivion for dissenting. I think it's far more telling that
| unmoderated forums tend to lean right - it speaks to the
| authoritarianism that has consumed the left, and pervasive
| control that progressives have across the internet. When
| you ban both far right extremism _and_ right of center
| opinions, the people are forced to congregate in the select
| few alternative forums that are not politicized through
| moderation. It 's also seems that leftist opinions can only
| flourish through heavy handed moderation and community
| gatekeeping. Reddit is just one example. Take a look at
| Wikipedia, or stackexhange, and the kind of sources that
| are permitted. Frankly, the "nazi" right is more open-
| minded at this point than the left, because leftist forums
| (and in person groups) tend to suppress dissenting ideas,
| to the degree that people on these moderated forums are
| simply not exposed to alternative ideas, which are far more
| nuanced than the trivial -isms that they are universally
| slandered with.
|
| Polarization in the US is thusly driven primarily by left
| wing authoritarianism, which uses the paradox of
| intolerance as an excuse to be intolerant, assigning guilt
| to right of center opinions by tenuous assocation.
| armchairhacker wrote:
| I completely agree with you, we need content moderation and
| some political beliefs are just toxic.
|
| But Reddit just takes it to the absurd:
|
| - Automods which remove posts which simply contain certain
| words (e.g. "coronavirus", apparently because too many
| covid deniers). I get trying to restrict covid
| misinformation, but I'm not even exaggerating, they remove
| _anything_ discussing covid even if it 's supporting.
|
| - Mods removing some posts seemingly at random (seem using
| sites like reveddit.com). These posts really don't involve
| anything controversial at all and I can't understand why
| they were removed.
|
| - Automods which ban you simply for posting in certain
| subreddits. And not radical ones, ones like
| r/PoliticalCompassMemes or r/watchredditdie. Btw, check out
| r/watchredditdie yourself to see more issues
|
| Another issue is that Redditors in top subreddits tend to
| add politics to pretty much anything. Like, there is a
| highly upvoted post in r/nextfuckinglevel (a subreddit
| designed for e.g. people running ultra-marathons or doing
| crazy gymnastics or magic tricks) that is literally just a
| guy in his 40s ranting about how the U.S. government is
| fucked. And yeah, I agree the US government is pretty bad,
| but I don't need to hear about it in every single subreddit
| or r/AskReddit thread.
| atweiden wrote:
| Social bookmarking site moderation is in need of an
| overhaul. Moderators have turned into gatekeepers who
| can't be unseated.
|
| I'm dreaming of an "old Reddit"/HN-esque discussion board
| where moderation policies are opt-in. E.g. submit a
| thread to /r/bayarea, users compete to moderate e.g.
| ban/censor content. Users "follow" moderators to opt-in
| to their moderation policies. Basically
| upvoting/downvoting but for moderation itself.
|
| Even better if a user's moderation policies could be
| forked and lightly edited. I even think there's room for
| a learning curve here, given how thoroughly social
| bookmarking sites have trounced traditional media.
| handoflixue wrote:
| I think the big problem with this is that very few people
| actually want to be moderators, and the people who do
| want the position are often least suited for it.
|
| Smaller communities can rely on simple upvote/downvote,
| possibly with some intelligent logic to notice who you
| tend to agree with - I think Slashdot was primarily this?
|
| But past a certain scale, just dealing with spam is a
| huge deal. Plus you need 24/7 coverage, and you want mods
| to be reasonably responsive. Assuming each person can put
| in 42 hours/week of moderation that still means you need
| four moderators.
|
| And of course you need a default for people who have just
| arrived at the site, so that they're not buried in spam
| or attacked by trolls on their first post.
| daptaq wrote:
| Sounds to me like internet fora inevitably fail, either
| suffering under over- or under-regulation. People usually
| act as though one of the two solutions could fix the
| problem, but having seen both, I cannot prefer either. The
| medium is broken.
| hnnnnnnng wrote:
| Lmao
| godelski wrote:
| I think a big issue is inflation. As we have more users a niche
| forum turns into a more general forum. There's some good and
| bad to this. This has even happened on HN. But there's another
| problem. If a forum is too small then it doesn't serve its
| purpose of connecting the right people. I wonder if anyone
| knows the optimal size/range, or if such a metric exists (under
| certain criteria of course).
| caddemon wrote:
| This is what makes subreddits such a good idea IMO.
| Theoretically Reddit can be a massive community, while each
| subreddit can still remain niche. Then people can be
| connected to others across a number of topics without
| "polluting" spaces they are not interested in.
|
| Of course if you are interested in discussing a broad or
| popular topic like politics or the NBA, you will probably
| have to actually just find a smaller group to get higher
| quality discussion. There's not really a way around the
| inflation issue in those subreddits, as far as I can tell.
|
| The other problem is that Reddit seems to increasingly
| emphasize the generic popular subreddits in its UI and how
| the site is marketed/presented. There are still good, active
| subreddits for certain hobbies and communities, but I do
| worry that the more Reddit is viewed as just another large
| social media site, the fewer such subreddits there will be.
| godelski wrote:
| I think that the problem is that there's a fractal nature
| to this though. It then makes discoverability a much more
| complex problem as inflation continues.
| ItsMonkk wrote:
| The core problem with Reddit is that it calls them
| communities, but for 99% of the subreddits the name of
| the subreddit is based on the content, not the people.
| This leads Reddit into these fractal content
| relationships where you can only really discuss the
| things that have the goldilocks level of popularity.
| Looking to get some new headphones and aren't an
| audiophile? Sorry, headphones are to popular and the
| niche subreddit is to specific to you.
|
| Hacker News on the other hand is based on Hackers, it's
| about the people. The topics are broad. When a new thing
| comes into existence that hackers are interested in, we
| don't have to move to a new place where maybe most of us
| don't realize it exists, we discuss it here and introduce
| it to others here. That's the correct view.
|
| But the cause of the problem that reddit faces is
| population size. We want a small town community, not a
| community the size of New York City, where people are
| aggressive because they know they won't see that random
| person again. It's about seeing the same name, and treat
| those names with dignity. It's about caring about the
| people in the community.
|
| So Hacker News in time will either deal with this problem
| or run into the same issue that large subreddits face.
| Once new users start learning behavior from other new
| users, there's no coming back from that. Eternal
| September is coming. I hope a resolution is discovered,
| because I really like it here.
| newman8r wrote:
| Dunbar's Number [1] puts a number of 150 as an upper limit
| for effective groups where everyone knows eachother - but
| these would presumably be active users, and it's not
| necessarily directly applicable to internet forums (but from
| my experience with irc and other communities, it does make
| some sense). I've been trying to start groups like this
| myself, but it isn't easy.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
| tizzy wrote:
| > nothing will beat simply Google searching a topic and typing
| "reddit" afterwards
|
| This is so true and I'm glad I'm not the only one who does
| this. I also do this with "forum" at the end of each search
| nowadays. There's something very truthful about these opinions
| and discussions that I find hard to describe. I think I trust
| these opinions more because they tend to speak from their own
| experience which is not always one of expertise, but rather of
| someone like me.
|
| When deciding on getting x vs y, a Reddit post from 5 years ago
| with even just 10 upvotes suggesting x gives me way more
| confidence than the majority of reviews.
| philwelch wrote:
| > Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and
| exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political
| groups in all the subreddits (on both sides) to try to
| influence the general groupthink narrative/consensus. It's so
| disgustingly obvious but doesn't seem to be an issue for the
| team.
|
| The only real solution for this is the same as any other social
| media, or even real life: accept that people live in non-
| overlapping bubbles and hang out in the bubbles you're
| comfortable with or curious about.
| fnord77 wrote:
| not to mention marketing all over subreddits and moderators
| with agendas. it's just so corrupt and greasy
| vmception wrote:
| Just unfollow all the default subreddits and follow ones
| tailored to you
|
| Also its all sides astroturfing because there are more than two
| thomastjeffery wrote:
| > I guess what I'm try to say is nothing will beat simply
| Google searching a topic and typing "reddit" afterwards to
| query some super insightful and awesome 5+ year old forum post
| on whatever the content is.
|
| Better yet, use site:reddit.com
|
| Reddit's search really needs some work. It's practically
| useless for me unless I am using old.reddit.com/.
|
| > There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg
| migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really
| great back and forth being shared of individual's experiences
| in almost every single subreddit.
|
| That golden era is still happening. It's just hidden under a
| bunch of signal noise.
|
| It helps to take all of the popular subreddits out of your feed
| and only join more niche ones.
|
| The reality is that _humanity in general_ is experiencing the
| same "golden era" hidden behind a high noise to signal ratio.
| There's only so much we can do to filter through it.
| stingraycharles wrote:
| > Reddit's search really needs some work. It's practically
| useless for me unless I am using old.reddit.com/.
|
| I always thought that "Reddit search is bad" is pretty much
| as old as Reddit itself. I don't think they ever seriously
| invested in that, for whatever reason.
|
| Here's a post from 8y ago where people were already accepting
| that it has been like that forever, and it hasn't changed a
| lot ever since. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1
| 46gop/why_does_...
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| I haven't seen a single social media or messaging platform
| where search didn't suck. Reddit search was bad, after
| redesign it's just hot garbage. Messenger search is
| unreliable and near-useless. Facebook search only worked
| well for the brief moment when they introduced "graph
| search", but that got quickly killed due to popular
| outrage. HN's bolted-on Algolia search is the least bad
| I've seen. And let's not even talk about Twitter, Instagram
| or Slack.
|
| I'd go as far as saying that search features are being
| underdeveloped on purpose - perhaps they allow usage
| patterns that service owners don't like.
|
| But then, Mastodon's search is even worse than Twitter, and
| that project has no incentive to disenfranchise their
| users. So I'm honestly confused about all this.
| tsian2 wrote:
| This lead me to believe that search must really hard to
| implement, but then a few days of getting into Sphinx
| convinced me otherwise. It's kind of like the big sites
| where you have to load the whole video before it'll start
| playing (no HTTP partials). They could do better, they
| just don't.
| medstrom wrote:
| Um. Example of sites where you have to load the whole
| video? I've never seen that in my life (I'm 29).
| na85 wrote:
| I'm only 35 and I remember this. It was quite common
| before YouTube.
| lacksconfidence wrote:
| In my experience search is really easy to implement. Good
| search, across a large dataset, is a never ending money
| pit.
| tshaddox wrote:
| Slack's search is excellent for me. I use it probably at
| least once a week to find something important for work.
| Granted, I'm usually searching for things that I know
| will be an exact substring match of the message I'm
| looking for, but for that it works great for me.
| mooreds wrote:
| As long as we're piling on about search, here are my two
| least favorite site searches: * meetup
| * AWS docs
|
| Going straight to google for both of these nets better
| results 99% of the time.
|
| It's probably a cycle at this point. More people use
| google (or other general search), so these sites optimize
| for them, rather than invest in the site search
| experience. General search engines are where the users
| are coming from.
| stingraycharles wrote:
| I think it's a combination of "search is hard" and "witty
| comments / titles make it even harder to search for".
|
| I'd argue most of these sites would be far better off
| with just using Algolia or Google as their main search
| engine and calling it a day.
| lacksconfidence wrote:
| > I don't think they ever seriously invested in that, for
| whatever reason.
|
| They have recently invested in it, switching to
| lucidworks[1] a few years ago. Sadly i don't think it
| changed anyones opinion of reddit search, but it might have
| saved them some infrastructure cost.
|
| [1] https://lucidworks.com/customers/reddit/
| wfawejoiweoif wrote:
| "site:reddit.com" is significantly more burdensome to type
| than "reddit", particularly on phone keyboards.
|
| I use DDG, which simply doesn't handle just putting "reddit"
| at the end of things very well compared to google, and no
| mobile keyboard makes typing "site:reddit.com" easy given the
| punctuation and the auto-inserted spaces, so I typically just
| end up doing "reddit g!" to deal with it and just use google.
| Weebs wrote:
| > There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg
| migration
|
| I've been longing for this lately. Even the more interest
| specific subreddits have gotten noticeably worse and borderline
| toxic. It feels like it's shifted from a culture of sharing and
| discussing niche topics or current events with some goofy humor
| to a slightly more dignified YouTube comment section
| thisissidhant wrote:
| I agree. Google Search is much much better. I personally built
| the list using this way along with other list already created.
|
| My idea is to create a catalogue of a lot of subreddits for
| people to navigate well
| WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote:
| I love how you laid this out. It's very nicely done.
|
| I think if there was also a way to show and filter by comment
| activity/frequency/subscribers too (or some other creative
| metric) beyond the subreddit title it would go miles.
| thisissidhant wrote:
| This is a really good idea. I will collect more data points
| definitely !
| salmo wrote:
| I think this is the lifecycle of all 'nerd' sites. Slashdot
| went this way, Digg, Reddit, and we're seeing it here.
|
| It starts with insightful stuff, knowledgeable people, real
| discourse. Reddit may have been special because at the time the
| community also prided itself on kindness.
|
| But then 'nerds' go from people who have insight and opinions
| on esoteric topics, to people that like Marvel universe movies.
| Basically it gets popular and then it's no longer a niche
| group.
|
| I think this happens with social media and "the kids" as well.
| As soon as your mom is on it, it's dead and you move on to the
| next one.
|
| But we see it now. It's gotten to where most of the time I have
| to collapse the first few threads because they turn into fanboy
| arguments (pro/anti-apple, intel vs. AMD, copyleft vs liberal
| OSS licenses, etc, etc.).
| door101 wrote:
| > There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg
| migration.
|
| People say this, but this is also when Reddit was the largest
| place for underage "softcore" pornography on the internet. It
| was one of the first things you saw when you google searched
| "reddit"
| kart23 wrote:
| reddit is still like half porn. It was so bad they stopped
| showing NSFW content on r/all, before the change if you
| sorted by new, literally half the posts were marked NSFW.
|
| https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lhnvok/removing_.
| ..
| jcims wrote:
| Generally avoiding subreddits with more than 100k members is
| the way to find decent content.
|
| For really slow subreddits, just tack /comments on to the
| subreddit URL to get a listing of most recent comments instead
| of posts.
| tyrust wrote:
| >It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all
| the subreddits (on both sides) to try to influence the general
| groupthink narrative/consensus. It's so disgustingly obvious
| but doesn't seem to be an issue for the team.
|
| I've used reddit for 10 years. I heard this claim before and
| disagree (still [0]). I subscribe to a couple dozen subreddits,
| some of which are fairly large (/r/cooking, /r/games,
| /r/programming), and see pretty much nothing off-topic or
| political (let alone astroturfing). The most I've seen is a
| sticky or a blackout for a non-related issue. Those are rare
| enough that I don't think an average user is meaningfully
| impacted by it, whether or not you agree with the issue being
| discussed.
|
| [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27120055
| workethics wrote:
| > I've used reddit for 10 years.
|
| I believe that's why you think that. I feel that reddit
| started to go downhill after 2011, which was 10 years ago. So
| if that's when you joined you wouldn't have experienced what
| it was like before to feel that way.
| tyrust wrote:
| I mean, the site hasn't been unchanged over that history.
| I've left many subreddits as they became memed-out messes.
|
| Overall, I find that there are plenty of subreddits with
| focused discussion and decent moderation.
|
| I'd be interested in what you refer to as the entirety of
| the site going "downhill". You haven't really given me much
| to reply to in this comment.
| [deleted]
| Jorengarenar wrote:
| > I subscribe to a couple dozen subreddits, some of which are
| fairly large (/r/cooking, /r/games, /r/programming), and see
| pretty much nothing off-topic or political
|
| Well, that's because those have specific topic. It's hard to
| make something political about cooking. Bit easier in case of
| gaming (as games being cultural work can be political
| commentary), I've seen some political discourses on
| r/programming as well.
|
| But on r/all you will find post from more political
| subreddits (r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/BlackPeopleTwitter,
| r/TwoXChromosomes, r/MurderedByWords, r/PoliticalCompassMemes
| etc.) regularly. For better of worse the content consist
| mostly of post from more left side of political spectrum,
| although it creates and echo chamber and you will be highly
| criticized if you try to raise any concerns.
|
| I consider to be more of the progressive side, but sometimes
| when I see some post I have thoughts "wait, this one actually
| starts to sound like communism again".
| CallMeMarc wrote:
| Nice, just found a bunch of my old favorite subreddits I totally
| forgot about since switching from the Reddit mobile app to
| Apollo. Thanks!
| thisissidhant wrote:
| Awesome :)
| duxup wrote:
| Even community topics seem like 'not enough' of a filter on
| reddit.
|
| I want a 'good' community, not just any 'community'.
|
| Like is a sub about a semi competitive video game a bunch of try
| hards who are busy sneering at everyone's stats?
|
| Or is it easy going?
|
| Or is it full of memes / funny pics?
|
| Are there even any active mods on the sub?
|
| Just a topic doesn't seem like enough of a filter.
| lettergram wrote:
| I've been thinking a while about making a social media site that
| doesn't have boards, subreddits, channels, pages, etc
|
| Instead it would be almost like a stream of consciousness where
| the system learns your interests and expertise and basically
| builds a board for you with stories from different topics. Could
| even be across multiple sites.
|
| It would use something like this: https://insideropinion.com/
| TchoBeer wrote:
| Like Tiktok
| nkrisc wrote:
| Maybe my definition of a "niche" subreddit is different, but
| these just look like broad, generally popular categories.
|
| Like click Sports and Games and the top on is... /r/sports? Sure,
| it's relevant, but is it niche? I don't really see how this is
| much better than just typing "$myInterest reddit" into a search
| engine.
|
| Unless I'm missing something, I just don't see how this helps my
| find a subreddit for my niche.
| thisissidhant wrote:
| You can find a niche by selecting a category from the left
| sidebar. Once you select a category, you see tags related to it
| on the top screen.
|
| For sports these are - Board games, billiards, American
| football martial arts etc to name a few.
|
| I guess you didn't explored the category. You may find it
| useful, try it out :)
| flenserboy wrote:
| Reddit has some great individual boards, but it's not always easy
| to find them. This site, as well as others
| (https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ comes to mind), is a nice start
| on making them more discoverable.
|
| Reddit also brings to mind the old statement on UNIX - "Those who
| do not understand USENET are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
| There will always be room for something like USENET (part of the
| pre-web days I miss), and Reddit is, sadly, what we have right
| now.
| samirillian wrote:
| I feel like a good top level category would be fan clubs or
| similar, subreddits for podcasts, tv shows, etc.
| lt wrote:
| What I did to improve my reddit experience:
|
| 1. unsubscribe to all the big default subreddits, like askreddit,
| funny, etc (don't worry, you can still check them out if you
| want).
|
| 2. go to r/all and use the filter feature to block the most
| annoying content or popular stuff that you absolutely don't care
| about. I blocked politics subreddits, some memes, anime,
| communities for popular youtubers, some of the worse default
| ones. Just look at the current /r/all listing and block whatever
| you don't care about that appears in the first few pages, refresh
| and do it again a few times. I go back every once in a while to
| repeat the process.
|
| 3. subscribe to specific things you care about. smaller
| communities are better, some of the large ones are better
| moderated than others.
|
| 4. favorite a few (3-4) subreddits that are about things I want
| to check often.
|
| My home feed is mostly tailored to my interests, even if there's
| some fluff. Smaller subreddits I don't check often and appear
| there. Then I check my favorite subreddits for specific things,
| and there's r/all for the popular stuff.
|
| I find that general topics like tech, music, sports are usually
| bad, but more specific, not necessarily niche, are better (a sub
| about a specific framework, maybe, or about your hometown,
| favorite band, or favorite team). Moderation style helps a lot.
| user00012-ab wrote:
| People keep saying how great Reddit is, but I tried signing up to
| a bunch of my "Niches" and all the posts where just low quality
| junk; for example every other post in the 3dprinting subreddit is
| just "MY FIRST PRINT!" or "I BOUGHT A THING!" and for some reason
| people think it's cute so they upvote it. EDC? here is another
| picture of my gun! Tech reddit; "here is a link to a medium post
| that you can't see unless you subscribe!".
|
| And the rest of the posts are just people re-asking the same
| questions over and over because they can't be bothered to search.
|
| Reddit is just a fire hose of low quality content.
| xeromal wrote:
| That's a pretty broad brush. Check out /r/askscience and
| /r/askhistorians for some heavily moderated subreddits. Not all
| need that level but they produce almost all quality posts.
| 1_player wrote:
| That's the exception that proves the rule. /r/askscience and
| /r/askhistorians have heavy handed moderation to keep quality
| much higher than the rest of Reddit.
|
| I don't know how one can disagree with the fact that most of
| Reddit is quick engagement posts (images, memes, even if they
| don't fit the subreddit) and witty one liners voted to the
| top. There's good stuff, sure, the point is that it's hidden
| behind a ton of crap.
| xeromal wrote:
| Sounds just like the internet to me though. Gotta scrounge
| for treasure but it's worth it.
| caddemon wrote:
| Yeah I'm not sure if there is an "ask" style subreddit for 3D
| printing, but IME the ask subreddits are a good way to get
| quality content on a broader academic topic.
|
| There may also be a sidebar on a given sub with more specific
| related subreddits listed out. These can sometimes be more
| technical (for example there is a subreddit specific to
| breaking down NFL plays) or sometimes they are just a way to
| get a more specific viewpoint (I like to check out both
| teams' subreddits after some controversy happens, neither
| side is usually level headed but then you at least get both
| sides of the story).
| frakkingcylons wrote:
| Yeah this annoys me to no end. I only subscribe to subreddits
| which have strict moderation. Even those subreddits really
| struggle to keep up with removing low effort comments because
| there's too many.
|
| The cooking subreddit is somewhat okay. They have a no image
| post rule and that is pretty effective just on its own.
| godelski wrote:
| I think this is inflation. There's plenty of subreddits that
| were great for awhile then just became over run with stuff like
| that. I think because a lot of people are more casual members
| and just casually upvote a lot. But to be honest, there's still
| not that much great material in the first place. Maybe there's
| a way to separate out these groups. E.g. noobs and technical
| members. These people have different needs and wants. Technical
| members should help noobs (wizards don't exist without noobs)
| but maybe all technical members don't want to do that and only
| want to see what other technical users are doing. A niche topic
| stops being niche when it gains too many users and I think that
| harms the community when members are looking for said niche
| community.
| Kye wrote:
| Most communities have a related subreddit where that sort of
| stuff is banned, but finding it usually requires spending
| enough time reading to see a mention 20 levels deep in an off-
| topic thread near the bottom. You might get lucky with the
| subreddit's wiki or sidebar if it has one.
|
| The 3dprinting subreddit's sidebar links to this:
| https://old.reddit.com/user/Devtholt/m/3d_printing/
| dougmwne wrote:
| It can depend on the subreddit, but you are mostly right. The
| moderation makes a big difference and it's all volunteer, at
| least for niche subs. I have a small handful I subscribe to and
| check regularly. Mostly I Google for reddit threads when I'm
| interested in a topic since you'll generally end up with a
| quality thread on almost any imaginable topic.
| philwelch wrote:
| YMMV. Subreddits still need good moderators to succeed.
|
| For me, the sweet spot is:
|
| 1. If I want to buy a $PRODUCT, I find the subreddit for
| enthusiasts of $PRODUCT and see if they have a wiki or a
| stickied post or a sidebar that has accumulated recommendations
| and/or advice.
|
| 2. Some subreddits are more about the stickied general
| discussion thread than the rest of the subreddit.
|
| 3. There are lots of subreddits, and many of them were started
| specifically out of some grievance with a different subreddit.
| Are you sure there isn't a "EDC-but-no-guns" subreddit, if
| that's what you really wanted?
| covercash wrote:
| Those topics are still too generalized which tends to indicate
| the sub has a lot of casual and beginner members. Larger
| communities also mean they're a target for low quality/repost
| material that accounts can use to significantly increase karma
| in a short amount of time.
|
| If you check the sidebars, you can usually find more niche
| related subreddits. r/3Dprinting actually made a multireddit
| with all of the subs that relate to them:
| https://old.reddit.com/user/Devtholt/m/3d_printing?utm_sourc...
| fouric wrote:
| The _idea_ for this service is neat! However...
|
| Given the increasingly hostile behavior of Reddit's mods over the
| past few years, I would prefer a service that searches for _non-
| Reddit_ subReddit-like-things. I don 't want to feed the new
| corporate monster that Reddit is becoming - I would rather join a
| new community that still has actual values.
| meristem wrote:
| I see the category list...where would "Beauty" or "Cars" be
| listed?
| thisissidhant wrote:
| > if you checked it on the mobile screen, you will see a
| horizontal scrollable category list, Along with all Categories,
| there is a category for Fashion. There you will find subreddits
| related to Beauty.
| TeeMassive wrote:
| /r/DataHoarders really hasn't disappointed me so far.
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