[zacmps]

Parts of reddit are good. They're probably the closest thing you'll find to HN though many here would have to admit it.

[djsumdog]

I gave up on reddit partially after they removed the warrant canary and almost entirely after they were was caught editing comments, and the suit responsible was not asked/forced to resign.

I'll occasionally read /r/mechanicalkeyboards and other communities I enjoyed, but as a whole, I find most of the site has turned into an echo chamber.

I tried voat for a while, but that pretty much degraded into a cesspool of racism.

[sebleon]

any subreddits in particular you recommend?

[akkartik]

https://www.reddit.com/u/akkartik/m/programming

https://www.reddit.com/u/akkartik/m/thehumancondition

(I got the name of the second multireddit from http://hubski.com/tag/thehumancondition. Hubski is another interesting community.)

[noahjk]

Neither of these links are working for me.

[akkartik]

Looks like multireddits don't work on the mobile version, so if you're on a phone request the desktop version somehow.

[Cyph0n]

It really depends on your interests. Most mainstream programming languages have dedicated subreddits, so that's a good place to start. /r/programming is a great place for general programming news, but it usually overlaps with HN. /r/netsec is another excellent subreddit with general security-related news and content.

I think the beauty of Reddit is that it's all up to you to curate the content, which obviously makes it hard to recommend things to read for others :P

Here is a list of my favorite subreddits for anyone who wants an idea of what's available on Reddit:

Tech-related:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/ (programming jokes)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/ (video game emulation news and discussion)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/

Non-tech:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ (a better version of /r/BestOf)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyaskscience/ (the opposite of AskScience)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/ (try to figure this one out :P)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/bertstrips/ (beware: offensive content)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/totallynotrobots/

[kungtotte]

I'd like to point out that the less general the subreddit, and the fewer visitors it has, the better the content (both submissions and comments) is.

There are some exceptions, and technical subs are generally better than more mainstream ones.

[sebleon]

Very awesome, thanks for the extensive list!

[elchief]

/r/nfl is the funniest (in a dumb funny kinda way) during the NFL season

/r/netsec is nice and serious and nerdy

[mwill]

Most sports have a pretty good, high quality subreddit, /r/mma is hands down my most visited non news/programming subreddit.