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Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche by dmingod666 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:33AM (#27299438)
People that are complaining about reddit being bad need to know this.

- Join groups centered around a very specific technology / purpose / interest.

- Leave all groups that have a large amount of people in them .

- Leave all groups that are very generic - example: r/programmerhumor, r/politics, r/programming, r/nextfuckinglevel

As a rule of thumb, the more the people and the more generic the group purpose the more political and toxic people will be.

Now my reddit feed has drama turned all the way down, it has interesting things about the things I like. It's not as amusing as before but the people are more chilled out and helpful.

Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche by philips4350 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:01AM (#27299861)
I was so excited when I found out about r/programmerhumor, but was quickly disappointed at the quality of the memes or a lack there of. I feel most of the post have nothing to do with programming and some that do are mostly 'java bad', 'js bad', 'exit vim', etc. It's like people who post there have no programming experience whatsoever.
Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche by Jorengarenar on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:06AM (#27299901)
> It's like people who post there have no programming experience whatsoever.

Bingo

Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche by LeCow on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:11AM (#27300260)
"Oh sweety, I've just gone through your history and read everyone of your Reddit comment and I can't even right now.

Science doesn't care about your feelings"

Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche by dmingod666 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:16AM (#27300284)
Sorry, didn't get that reference..
Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche by 5560675260 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:40AM (#27301310)
It's a mashup of replies that you get on reddit whenever you unluckily stumble into someone with an axe to grind. I think that argument here is that experience on reddit might get negative even when sticking to smaller thematic subreddits.
Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche by dmingod666 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:48AM (#27301356)
I see the drift, the smaller subs like Zelda BOTW and language specific ones are pretty laid-back.. like 1 - 2 odd negative / mean comments a month..