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Comment by PaulHoule | Hacker News Reader

I thought reddit died when people started posting those image memes.

The default subreddits are really horrible. Reddit is still okay if you unsubscribe from all of those and only subscribe to the narrow subreddits that you're interested in. Of course, it's hard to find new subreddits that way.

You might be lucky and there is a subreddit for your favorite topic that has very strict rules about memes or lazy content. I wish more subeditors would encourage lazy content or have a "fork" with such rules.

Something as simple as subsubreddits would solve this. I.e. a "funny" subfolder or something, like proper forums are organized in different sections. But Reddit want a eternal feed to show as much ads as possible. Low quality posts makes them money since you have to scroll by them and thus sees more ads.

I won't blame the company, is the community. I don't use reddist as much but as a Star Trek fan I see there are a lot of subeditors, one for each show, a generic one, one for the haters, ones from memes, a more technical one etc. Reddit the company won't care if you spend your 30 minutes free time on the no-jokes one or on that hates-everything one ... you just need a big enough community that would enjoy a more niche and strict subreddit.

I have seen alot of people that put all their stuff in the root of "c". Or the desktop.

I think many subreddits would benefit from small subsections and especially 'last comment date' sorted feed.

Both those things could be opt-in!

What do you expect though? To go on home page of Youtube or Reddit and find content exactly on your taste?

That is not reasonable, if I go on private mode on youtube homepage I am not surprised to find the most popular music that my countrymen are watching, stuff I dislike, so I bookmarked my youtube subscription page and subscribe to stuff I enjoy and use the search.

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