User groups you would be interested in get hijacked by whatever the overall sentiment of Reddit is. Threads that aren't political suddenly get political for no reason. It's completely dead in there - content quality is brutally low.

I just bookmark subreddits for things I'm interested in, and visit them individually. I hardly ever see any political content doing that.

The key is to stay in smaller, dedicated subreddits and avoid anything remotely popular or generic.

r/localllama, r/bambulabs ... Politics has a way of creeping in.

Politicisation happens, though slowly. Therewasanattempt used to be funny pictures/videos and is now purely TDS. My city's sub used to have useful local content and is now about 50% national politics.

The wave of X bans was so frustrating. Particularly for sports subreddits where that’s where all of the breaking news and team announcements happen.

In fact NFL teams are specifically banned from having bluesky accounts as an official media channel, and r/nfl still banned X/Twitter.

sigh

Why are NFL teams banned from having an official account on Bluesky?

It’s not an “approved social media site”:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/new...

Presumably there’s some money that needs to change hands between the NFL and a social media site.

> You can just add subs that are of interest that lack the torrent of bad news and only ever visit that custom feed.

I still use old.reddit and this is the only way I've ever used Reddit. My homepage only shows me posts from Reddits I follow and nothing else. I don't see all the craziness people here are talking about.

Yes, that's exactly the same as what I do. When I tried new reddit, it looked awful to use and look at, so I always stayed at old reddit. Like you I don't see any of the crazy stuff. Just discussions in the subreddits I follow.

Yeah I just use old Reddit, which still works like that.

Cannot stand unsolicited content.