I know this site is mostly critical of Reddit, and I tend to find reddit to be hard to use given that their spaces tend to be either ragebaity or polarizing. For those who still occasionally visit reddit, what are some current subreddits that you’d recommend nowadays? For me it’s:
- r/history - I like how they actively discourage non-serious comments and delete comments that violate their rules, so that sub feels like an actual forum
- r/religion - the discussions lean towards neutral and welcoming, willing to discuss religions from their point of view without pushing their beliefs onto others (they have a rule that prohibits proselytizing). Great for those who want to inquire about a specific religion but the religion-specific subreddits are subjected to the average subreddit’s shortcomings.
- r/SeriousConversation - a nice space for those who don’t want to chat through memes and insults
r/nba. Wish the conversations would find their way here, but for now it’s way more engaging on reddit
Now that you’ve mentioned it, subreddits with “r/Academic” as the prefix managed to create some communities here on Lemmy, but discussions continued on Reddit anyway