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I enjoy Reddit, but it's just not designed for smaller communities in my opinion.

The tricky thing with reddit is that it's algorithm tuned for a daily churn. A small sub, like the one you mentioned, may only have a couple good posts a week, but you will miss them if you don't check every day.

If you only browse the frontpage of your subscribed subreddits, adding any popular subreddits tend to drown out the smaller ones.

I see. My habit is manually checking subs rather than relying on an aggregate or algorithmic view. I also sort by newest.

A couple workarounds for that:

- Multireddits—you could put ‘slow’ subreddits into a multi that you'll check separately.

- RSS feeds, if they still work.

I scan Reddit wide but this sub I didn't know

r/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology come to mind as well.