HACKER Q&A
📣 frans

Which subredits do you follow?


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


  👤 djhaskin987 Accepted Answer ✓
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.

👤 nicbou
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.


👤 BlameKaneda
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


👤 auxym

  - 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

👤 jokoon
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


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

👤 NibLer
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.

👤 dcminter
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!"


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

👤 kleer001
dogswithjobs

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.


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

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

👤 coder4life
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


👤 Raed667
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


👤 lakomen
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.