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.
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
- 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
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)
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!"
MaliciousCompliance
upliftingnews
animalsbeingbros
humansbeingbros
programminghumor
Awwducational
SympatheticMonsters
pettyrevenge
prorevenge
nuclearrevenge
unclejokes
/r/ /r/ 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.
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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
I avoid it. The thought police is very real there. It's an awful place.