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Comment by bnt | Hacker News Reader

I think the age of a mindfull, usefull Reddit are gone. It’s been trolls and crap content for years now, and it’s only getting worse IMHO. I think at some point the usefull, good communities will migrate somewhere else in the coming years

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The only thing you can really do is unsubscribe from literally everything, and choose much more boutique groups that are related to your specific interests. For example /r/multicopter/ is a half decent resource for quadcopters and various hobby drones, or /r/destinythegame is a useful resource for a specific video game. The page /r/alaskanmalamute is a friendly community of people who own Malamute dogs.

Everything that has millions of random people joined to it has become a cesspool of lowest common denominator clickbait posts and photos.

As long as your subreddit is small enough (500-25k) and never hits the front page it can be ok

mods are still allowed to opt out of front page. i encourage mods to do this.

Nice! I hope it’s just a button that says Innoculate.

Trolls and crap content? Aren't you being overly broad here? I find the r/swift and r/iOSProgramming communities pretty informative. And the r/ProgrammerHumor is good for a smile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/

ProgrammerHumor used to be so good but I think it reached the front page too many times so now it’s just jokes for people for a passing interest in computers and bad volume sliders. I can’t stand being there anymore…

/r/SpaceX is still spectacular, and there doesn't seem much reason to migrate away.

Reddit still has good subs. If you limit yourself to those, you never see the bad stuff.

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