[L_Rahman]

The key to making reddit a bearable experience, and I think most people on HN will agree with this, is honing into specific subreddits that you believe are worth participating in and using them exclusive to the rest of the site. For me it's askhistorians, a relatively small community with ruthless moderation that stomps quickly and decisively on anything that isn't properly cited and maintains a healthy base of experts.

[frewsxcv]

Everyone I know who has disliked reddit was because they didn't know about all the subcommunities that exist. CGPG explains reddit rather nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlI022aUWQQ

[joshstrange]

I would agree with that statement. I just run multiple accounts (One for tech, one just for laughs, etc). I did this before the changes where you can have multiple front pages or streams (I'll admit I haven't played with them much) but I still like my approach as I like the separation.

[natural219]

Is there a list of good, high-quality subreddits somewhere? I would like to update my homepage to filter only the best ones.

[frewsxcv]

List your interests/hobbies/favorite things. Chances are, there's a subreddit for each of them.

[archagon]

And going one further, each topical subreddit usually has a couple of higher quality spinoffs. For example, r/gaming vs. r/games, or r/askreddit vs r/askhistorians.

[pavel_lishin]

And going further than that, there's spinoffs that appeal to an even more niche audience. For example, r/gaymers and r/asksciencefiction

[tsycho]

Not a list, but if you don't know where to start, check out r/bestof and dive deeper when you like the discussion on a particular subreddit.

[zokier]

Couple of other hints for subreddit discovery: if you find one interesting subreddit, check out its sidebar as many have a related subreddits section there. Also check "other discussions" tab for interesting links to see what other subreddits it has been posted on.

Picking your subreddits is a neverending task, I'm couple of years in and still keep finding new and old interesting subreddits.

[SkyMarshal]

Google "best subreddits" to start with.

Also, I guarantee if there's something you're interested in, there's a subreddit for it. Search for it here: http://www.reddit.com/reddits

[pests]

Try finding some multireddits. They are shareable collections of subreddits you can pass around.

[atwebb]

It completely depends upon your interests, I'm subscribed to a number of music related ones though nowadays I'm wondering why I don't just go back to a message board like AudioKarma...

[personlurking]

Not that I know of, but if you like learning and are curious, I'd look into /TrueReddit and any other subs in the sidebar, and /AskHistorians, plus anything in their sidebar.

[davidgerard]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reddit#Actually_decent_subreddi...

[shrikant]

In addition to the others mentioned here, do also check out /r/DepthHub/ and its sidebar for other such decent quality subreddits.

[criley2]

There should be multireddits these days made for that purpose, but I haven't explored the feature enough to be able to provide the answer.