Reddit would be infinitely better without any subreddits bigger than about 100k subscribers.
Instead, I’m in far smaller niche and location-relevant subs. I didn’t realize what cutting off my city subreddit would do for my sense of connection to my city. I didn’t realize how shit general search results are for questions about hobbies.
It’s really made me question if can allow one entity to serve as such an important conduit to my interests again.
The F1 subreddit (over a million subs)is one of the absolute worst places on the internet for any kind of discussion. It's totally dominated by The Hive Mind, dissenting opinions are absolutely unwelcome and the top posts on every single post are low-effort jokes, usually jokes that have been told a thousand times before. It's awful.
MotoGP (250k+ subs) is better, but still suffers from similar problems.
V8Supercars is quiet, but the discussion is of a far higher quality.
"Better than twitter" is a low bar to clear.
The exception is subs that lean heavily into over-the-top curation which is also its own special kind of groupthink hell imo.
All the big subs are garbage these days