Which reddit /r do you frequent?

title says it pretty much …

while I agree there is very little of a community feeling going on there, I often peruse:

r/whatcouldgowrong
r/interestingasfuck
r/TIL (?)
r/ukraine

and currently
r/vzla

so what are your guilty pleasures there?

I tend to visit subreddits for whatever video games I’m currently playing. I don’t really go to any of the larger general interest subreddits.

A lot of subs for specific game titles or TV shows, e.g. r/reddeadredemption2, r/TheAmazingRace, etc.

More general subs I follow:
r/blues
r/cats
r/grilling
r/guitars
r/hairmetal
r/instantpot
r/ProRevenge
r/VintageMenus

Then there’s my sports teams. Redditors are very good at consolidating and filtering the entire world of sports journalism down to just your team. They post breaking news faster than ESPN could ever dream. You do have to wade through a ton of homer and echo chamber delusion bullshit (as well as the gloom-and-doom set who are “fans” but all they can do is shit on everything the team does), but there’s good info to be had there if you can ignore all of that.

I follow a bunch of subreddits that I have no direct experience with, but find the discussions interesting, like:
r/probation
r/prison
r/Apartmentliving

Then some that I have direct experience with, like:
r/weed
r/drunk (yes, it’s back)
r/trees (about Cannabis)
r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts (about actual trees)
r/PaMedicalMarijuana
r/whatsthissnake
r/FellingGoneWild

Some that are just fun:
r/ChildrenFallingOver
r/SipsTea
r/sticknpokes
r/trashy
r/thingsforants

One I’ve been banned from:
r/AITAH

Also a bunch that I’d rather not mention!

r/mapporn

Up until a few months ago, I spent the vast majority of my time in r/WhatIsThisThing. However, a few months back, I noticed a few times, just in one day, before I could answer (or even after I answered) the mod answered the question and deleted the OP (so the thread still exists, you can still post to it, but the OP, the actual first post, is gone).
Curious, I looked at that mod’s history, and it seems to be their thing. Checking again now, they’re still doing it. I really enjoyed that sub but it really pissed me off when I noticed that.

Interestingly, one of their own rules is that posters can’t delete their OPs after they’re answered. I have no idea what this mod’s reasoning is, but it bothered me enough that I stayed away from WITT for a while. Only just recently have I started looking at it again, and again, I get annoyed when the mod deletes an OP while I’m looking for an answer.

Anyways, I’ve substituted TipOfMyTongue, which is adequate, kinda.

That’s pretty much it for me. The rest of the subs I look at are almost always because I’m looking for answers moreso than starting discussions. So, some networking subs, a few 3D printing subs and a few other software/hardware/service specific ones. Even those ones I don’t spend much time on since the software ones are mostly just people complaining about the software and the networking and 3D printing subs are gatekeeping dumpster fires.

There’s a lot of tyrannical modding happening in lots of reddits subs. I quickly unjoin subs where I detect that happening. r/guitar is a complete shitshow for that kind of thing.

r/akron
r/cleveland
r/clevelandguardians
r/ohio
r/twoxchomosomes
r/genx
r/genxwomen
r/xennials
r/webdev
r/dotnetcore
r/toys
r/vintagetoys

Basically that list sums me up as a person.

I did leave off all the subs for the trashy reality shows I watch :stuck_out_tongue:

Some of the smaller niche subreddits have an incredible feeling of community. Reddit is fantastic in many ways and it’s easy to sift out the good stuff. I’ve almost never had an obscure question where I couldn’t find that it’s already been answered in a specific sub.

I like the various Tesla subs to get news about updates.

The cooking subs are great when I’m looking for new recipes.

r/todayilearned
r/santabarbara
r/generationjones

r/centuryclub - you have to qualify by having at least 100k karma in one or the other category. Great supportive community and as good as the Dope for getting opinions on certain things.

I don’t go to reddit terribly often; I will occasionally go for assistance on various computer/videogame issues, but that’s about it.

I used to visit r/totalwar and r/Warhammer, but the amount of entitled whining I see on pretty much every general gaming thread means I can only stomach small doses…

As a geezer, I have no idea what it is. I assumed it was something mindless like TikTok, but it sounds more like this place.

Not t gonna list them all, but I do spend a decent amount of time on r/TheOnion and r/NotTheOnion, the latter being stories with headlines (and even sometimes content) which sounds like they could have been Onion articles.

Not really. It’s more like the old Usenet. There are subreddits on every topic that you can imagine. Some have hundreds of thousands of active users and others are very niche.

particularly:

r/unpopularopinion
r/toronto

one of the best features of googe (which “today” is pretty worthless), is:

limiting your google-search to reddit (by adding “reddit” after your search string …

as mentioned above gets you normally a very good first stab at things you want to know more about… kindalike wikipedia, but in terms of opinions, experiences, etc…

right now I did a wiz light reddit search in google … and those lights seem really interesting for anything you can/want to automate …

Mostly, ones pertinent to specific hobbies and interests of mine, including:

r/elo (Electric Light Orchestra)
r/ffxiv (Final Fantasy XIV MMORPG)
r/FATErpg (Fate, a tabletop role-playing game)
r/wisconsin (my home state)
r/packers (Green Bay Packers)
r/tolkienfans
r/nscalemodeltrains
r/mapporn (clearly, @Qadgop_the_Mercotan is a discerning individual, for following the same one)

I’ll visit r/ukraine every day to get the latest stories in one stop — along with the daily chart showing Russian losses.

Other than that it’s whatever looks interesting on the home page. I don’t post and am not registered.

I am a big frequenter of rNonCredibleDefense, rUkraine, rPolitics, rConservative (subreddits from political left to right), rNFL, rAtheism, rSelfImprovement, raskReddit. Really, all over the place

The problem with subs of that sort (I used to go there frequently too) is that almost every “unpopular opinion” is in fact an opinion that’s pretty popular.

Reddit has too many people posting ignorant and hostile comments.

I’ve scaled back on what I follow. I’m mostly down to a handful of TV shows, Aldi, recipes, and a couple others.