[twic]

No, it isn't. There are plenty of subs that just talk about their thing. justEgan is entirely correct to point out that you can avoid politics or news if you want to.

An awful lot of people do have this idea that you just have to turn the whole thing off, though. And i see a lot of people on Reddit equally incorrectly saying that about Twitter! I wonder why.

[MeinBlutIstBlau]

I'm not disagree with that. However reddit is trying to become a social media site when it never was that. It was always a place for people to anonymously browse. It was a superior form of slashdot really. But now they're just opting for a direction that caters to the "en-masse" crowd and not the people that genuinely care about the topic at hand. I'd say they've gotten so big they've fragmented each subreddit to be a destination of it's own.

While that's good and I'd be okay with this normally, reddit has had a decade of history showing they aren't afraid to generate a new policy to ban certain subreddits just because a minority of vocal losers want it banned.

[tubularhells]

Can you point me to one of these subs you are talking about?

[shearez]

/r/buildapc is a good example. There is very little discussion outside of the intended topic.

[com2kid]

/r/askculinary

/r/askengineers

/r/SEUT

Lots of the fiction and story subreddits, /r/maliciouscompliance is hilarious.

There are multitudes of art and music subreddits, choose your favorite genres.

/r/neutralpolitics is a great heavily moderated subreddit that requires HQ citations for any statements of fact posted.

The diet and fitness subreddits are super supportive and positive.

Tons of artists have their own subreddits, e.g. Swordscomic got its start on Reddit, and still has a really active subreddit.

[tubularhells]

/r/maliciouscompliance is just a creative writing sub though. Much like TIFU.

[prevthrash]

Haha, that's one way to look at it. Seriously though, that is in fact a positive attitude towards the content that can vastly transform the experience of the posts for the better.

It's the old question of liking something despite knowing it's (probably) fake: Usually it doesn't hurt, and can in fact mean that literally nobody got hurt.

But there's a general tendency of such content attracting hatred: If it does not explicitly identify itself as fictional, people don't like the idea of it being believed to be true.

[Loughla]

r/woodworking is a good example of a one subject sub. Go in and talk politics or news, see how that goes.

[bighitbiker3]

Most of the synthesizer and music subs