Pick a topic, find the subreddit for it. If you don't like the vibe there, make your own subreddit and moderate it -- or offer to help mod the primary and let them know it's because you want to change the vibe -- lots of mods really don't have the time to do a great job.<p>Go advertise your "just like /r/floobinart but with more zimbledings" sub everywhere to get people to come to it.
I've always thought that a simple HN-like site directed at those of us interested in art, critical theory and literature would be wonderful. Does anybody know of one? I would be interested in helping set one up...<p>One of the difficulties is that artists and academics tend to be very protective of interesting sources as I think intellectual individuality is much more of a currency than in the tech world.
I like the topic boards of 4chan.<p>The general stuff like /b/, /r9k/ and /pol/ is pretty crappy.<p>But stuff like /fit/ helped me a lot.<p>No voting karma crap, just anons posting stuff, read what you like, hide what you hate. the end.
Honestly if you can find some good communities on Slack those are usually great. Unfortunately I don't have any recommendations as I only have private slack teams but if anyone has recommendations that are popular that would be pretty awesome.<p>A hacker news team would be fantastic!
I'd love one for music production. Muffwiggler is the best so far, but it's just an old school messageboard.<p>All the subreddits seem overly focused on EDM, and entirely without the scientific vibe that HN has.
I spent two hours yesterday watching and reading the top posts from <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/top/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/top/</a><p>Also these subreddits have interesting content : r/science , r/interestingasfuck , r/space , r/food , r/travel , r/earthporn , r/coolgithubprojects , r/iama etc
To answer my own question, I've found voat.co to be a good alternative to reddit. The community is small, but the content is about as great as HN or some good quality sub-reddits.