[efrank02]

I’ve never spent time on r popular or the main page. If you only spend time in subs Reddit is very well designed and I think less exploitative than other social media

[frakkingcylons]

My issue is that you can’t serendipitously stumble upon random interesting subreddits without using the front page.

[optimalsolver]

Find subreddits by similarity:

https://trevor.shinyapps.io/subalgebra/

[patrickk]

Search a topic through multireddit and you’ll often find users collection of related subreddits on a given topic, e.g. DIY

https://old.reddit.com/user/patrick_k/m/diy/

[DoingIsLearning]

It's a great feeling when you find out something new that you really like! I did not know this was a feature and it is pretty damn cool!

[patrickk]

Glad you like it :)

It's a great way to keep an overview on an array of topics. I set them up for a large array of interests of mine, e.g. business (slavelabor, juststart and others), cool PC setups (battestations and unixp0rn), DIY, development, passive income, indoor gardening, cooking, ebikes, streaming tv (Plex, PlexACD, TiviMate).....

If you ever want to see the best ideas in a niche, just sort by > top > this year or all time, and you'll get great ideas and inspiration.

I just laugh when people say Reddit is rubbish, they just don't know how to curate and look properly for the gold on there.

You can also browse multireddits set up by others:

https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/

[tomcam]

I get a page not found error from reddit

[patrickk]

Ah, I've set it to private.

A better way is to look through a list of public multireddits:

https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/

Start with a topic that interests you and work from there.

[joker99]

Really? To me, the journey has been the other way around. Almost all of the subreddits I am subscribed to, I've stumbled upon by pure luck and coincidence. And more importantly: organically. I personally don't want recommendations, most algos are really bad

[hobofan]

> serendipitously

You could subscribe to /r/Serendipity which posts a few posts from random subs a day.

[howenterprisey]

I browsed that just now. It was very... Reddit. I don't know why I was hoping for some nice, small subs on topics I'm interested in.

[OscarCunningham]

https://old.reddit.com/r/random/

[omegabravo]

recommendations work well, but that's practically the only method.