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Comment by adamwong246 | Hacker News Reader

I think tumblr excels because, lacking a front page like reddit, the user's that hate each other never interact. And I'm increasingly sure that this is the only method for obtaining non-dysfunctional societies online- non-overlapping tribes of users. Why should the subscribers of /r/stormfront try to coexist with /r/BlackLivesMatter? It's like trying to house wolves and sheep in the same pen. Give each their own echo chamber.

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The same is true for offline societies.

[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...

I thought that Reddit has originally solved the problem of tuning each user's front page to their own tastes. Have I misremembered?

Yeah, you can tune the front page. But it's filled with popular subreddits by default. You'd have to opt-out of the frontpage by manually pruning your settings.

It's probably still nice to actually know what is happening. At least you switched it on in this case.

pro tip:

click on https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/

then open the console in your browser and type this :

     setInterval("$('a.option.active.remove.login-required').first().click()",400)

I didn't find the option to remove all default subscriptions at once in the settings, it might exist though. setInterval is needed because for some reasons ajax communication is throttled by reddit.

I don't think the solution to /r/stormfront is to have them never interact with anyone from /r/BlackLivesMatter

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