For some strange reason, I've been spending a lot of time in r/AdventOfCode this month. ;-)<p>Mostly it's for general overall awareness of the various things I'm interested in. It's a far more permissive environment for blowing off some steam.
/r/sailing definitely. Awesome community.<p>The various tech subreddits are also useful. Some others, in no particular order:<p>r/fire<p>r/digitalnomad<p>r/design
/r/bestof is a hit-and-miss but I discover some new subreddits there.<p>/r/askhistorians, /r/askscience, /r/whatisthisthing, /r/legaladvice (or rather the one specific to my country), /r/manufacturingporn<p>For anything tech related I stay on HN
All of my favorite ones are banned or removed for one reason or another. For example, one _very_ niche, very entertaining subreddit is gone and it's fanbase scattered to the winds. Died of his death, unfortunately.
I wrote about my favorite software subs recently [0]. tldr; /r/emudev, /r/programminglanguages, /r/reverseengineering, /r/databasedevelopment, /r/esolangs, /r/unikernel, /r/graphicsprogramming.<p>There were a few more suggestions in the HN thread as well [1] and on Twitter [2].<p>[0] <a href="https://notes.eatonphil.com/high-quality-subreddits-you-should-be-following.html" rel="nofollow">https://notes.eatonphil.com/high-quality-subreddits-you-shou...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450583" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450583</a><p>[2] <a href="https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1467536007448965129" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1467536007448965129</a>
/r/redscarepod<p>/r/streamentry<p>/r/slatestarcodex<p>/r/emacs<p>Two here require some explanation:
Redscarepod is for folks who listen to the Red Scare podcast, though I’d guess 30% of that subreddit listens regularly. It’s my favorite cultural subreddit.<p>Streamentry is meditation subreddit with focus on attaining enlightenment.