[paganel]

Unfortunately, reddit has started to hit new and new lows. See this recent highly-voted post for example (http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jvhot/i_found_a_girl_...), where they're making fun of a poor girl's badly photoshopped photos that she dared to publish on Flickr.

I've been on reddit since its very beginnings, back when its being rewritten in Python was causing huge discussions or when programming.reddit was still a sub-domain. I've lived through the 2008 elections stealing the front page from geeky-related articles, or when making fun at digg was actually considered cool (back in 2009 or so). Anyway, I never thought that making fun and hurting actual innocent people would really hit the front-page, I'm ashamed of having supported this website for so long. There are still some pockets of common-sense left, starting with TrueReddit which I think is more like an animal preserve for those who can still remember how cool and exciting reddit used to be. I'll also want to add /r/history to the list of sub-reddits worth following.

[bostonvaulter2]

Yeah, that is bad, but it is in r/funny. Other more niche subreddits are much better, like r/netsec

[georgieporgie]

TrueReddit

Wow, thanks for that! It's like Reddit, but without all the memes, manipulators, and obvious spammers trying to pump up their karma with reposts. That's the first time in years that I've felt that I gained something in exchange for my time.

[bostonvaulter2]

I'd also highly recommend r/depthhub

http://www.reddit.com/r/depthhub

Other more niche ones are good as well.

[whacker]

Unsubscribe from all the default frontpage reddits:

reddit.com politics pics gaming videos f7u12 askreddit etc.

and suddenly reddit looks much more civilized. The remaining reddits are mostly free of overt spamming and manipulation.

checkout /r/depthhub for real good stuff.