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The remaining 5% are the same jokes and memes repeated ad nauseam.

There are some nice communities out there, but they’re usually well hidden and relatively small. Once a community grows, it turns into the same shit show as the rest of Reddit.

Reddit is fantastic for learning a niche skill.

Want to learn how to make Kombucha, lock picking, or 3D printing? Then you probably want Reddit.

But anything approaching the popularity of a moderately successful video game turns into a shit show. One of the free to play games I use to play actually had two subreddits, after a community schism. Bonkers.

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