[discardedrefuse]

> I've been a long time user of Reddit, however rarely am I ever logged in

How? Why? This seems crazy to me. As a long time Reddit user, I've cultivated a nice list of subreddits specific to my interests; without all the noise. Reddit's default frontpage has become pretty terrible and useless.

[buwka]

Sure, I'll elaborate. I'm not logged in but also have a list of specific subreddits I frequent. I visit the same subreddits so frequently that on my safari mobile app they pop up as recommended. I press on that instead of logging in. I like the mixing feature of the home page for similar topics but prefer browsing a single subreddit at a time so there isn't much need to log in.

[kingcharles]

Coming back to Reddit after an eight year break from the Internet, I do not use the front page at all, whereas I would always browse it every morning before.

BUT, there has been an explosion of subreddits, some of which are unbelievably high quality with thousands of users even in the most niche interests. This leads to large amounts of content of value being created.

I'm very, very happy with where Reddit has gone. Also, porn.

[5co]

“I’m very, very happy with where Reddit has gone.”

Said no-one, ever.

[discardedrefuse]

For better or worse, Reddit has replaced forums, and in a big way. Now even the most niche topic has a subreddit jam packed with a wealth of information. Its like a wikipedia of people knowledge.

[buwka]

I agree with this. In the same way internet is synonymous with Facebook in some countries, I think any kind of niche community defaults to congregating in a subreddit. Sometimes I'd even describe HN as a subreddit focused on tech and entrepreneurship to describe it to people who don't know much about it.

Subreddits are almost different websites with different moderators and different cultures. HN is now one of the only forums I consistently visit. Otherwise subreddits dominate this method of topic-focused discussion.

[peakaboo]

Lots of censorship going on however. There are sites that show the deleted comments and you can learn a lot about the agenda of reddit from those. It's interesting in its own right.

[discardedrefuse]

On reddit, when comments say [deleted] its because the user deleted it themselves. But, yeah, there is censorship on reddit. It's almost always by subreddit mods and not reddit admins.

[edgyquant]

One thing I’ve noticed after a hiatus from Reddit is that now 1/3 subs that hit the front page are stock or crypto focused. Not only that but they all have the 4chan culture of Wall Street bets that I am not a fan of.