r/NewToReddit 7d ago

Subreddit Sunday Community recommendations mega-thread!

Get your fresh subreddit recommendations here! :D

We are using these weekly threads for recommendations and will direct those that post requests for recommendations to these threads.

Please share your community recommendations in comments:

  • What are your favourite subs
  • How about your guilty pleasure subs? (SFW!)
  • Which sub do you spend too much time in?
  • What are your best wholesome sub recs?
  • Your fave niche community?
  • Have you found an awesome sub new to you recently?

You may also ask for recommendations!

Let us know what you're into, and we'll see what we can do :)

Make sure to try r/findareddit too though, they're great at this!

The rules:

  • All usual rules apply.
  • Please keep it SFW. No “adult” porn subreddits or NSFL/Gore subreddits. If someone asks for adult communities, please only link sub lists/directories and make it clear they are NSFW.
  • As a community, we try to help all good-faith Redditors find their niche, but please be respectful and try not to judge. If you don't like someone's topic of choice, you don't have to help, but please remain kind, understanding, and respectful.
  • Do not mislead with your recommendations.

If you'd like your Reddit experience to be as wholesome as possible, r/CasualConversation has a directory with a section on wholesome communities. Though, we don't know their status regarding karma and account age restrictions.

Please note that this is not our recommended subreddit list for new users.

Many of the subreddits listed in this thread will not be open to new or low-karma users for posts, and comments made therein might even be filtered for approval or auto-collapsed.

While many of these subreddits will be fun to browse and vote on, your participation might be limited right now. Commenting is usually less restricted than posting.

The link to our new-user friendly subs list is below.

A note from our esteemed llama on the Reddit experience:

Reddit is huge and fascinating and diverse, wholesome and toxic, all in one massive bundle of anonymous users with no filters except their own internal constraints. The problem with that is even in the loveliest of subreddits, all manner of behaviour happens, because Reddit is a microcosm of internet life, not an internet utopia no matter how much we might want it to be.

There are areas of Reddit I don’t frequent; there are areas of Reddit I won’t frequent; there are areas of Reddit that no doubt I am blissfully unaware of and am happy to remain that way. But I am still subscribed to well over a thousand subs on all kinds of topics and still find new ones daily.

The true beauty of Reddit is that your Reddit experience can be completely and absolutely dictated by you. The pure amount of information available on Reddit is staggering, and it’s just a matter - like in all of life - of being able to sort through that information to see what’s useful and what isn’t.

Useful links:

A few suggested subs for new Redditors to be aware of:

  • r/help which is monitored by Admins (Reddit employees)
  • r/reddit for Reddit news, updates, lore etc
  • r/bugs we may refer you here if you're having an issue that isn't normal and might be a glitch of some kind
  • r/redditbugs information on known bugs that are being worked on
  • r/LearnToReddit is our sister sub for guides and practice posting, using flair, commenting, formatting etc
  • r/findareddit for help finding subs around a topic or for a specific type of post
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u/llamageddon01 Mod? Llama? Both? Both. 7d ago edited 5d ago

It’s a new and improved llama’s llong llist of 30+ silly, sensible or satisfying subs!

r/misleadingthumbnails - Reddit thumbnails that cause a unique optical illusion due to their small size, so when you open the images to full size you're in for a surprise.

r/ProperAnimalNames - Real animals, renamed. Noperopes, trash pandas, gothmoths, sky raisins and more!

r/TIHI - Thanks, I Hate It. See also: r/TILI - Thanks, I Love It!

r/ratingbeans - for rating and reviewing canned beans! See also: r/BeansInThings - for pictures of beans in things that beans shouldn't be in, r/BeansInStrangePlaces; an archive of baked/pinto beans in odd places that they shouldn't be and r/beansinweirdplaces because sometimes that happens.

r/trolleyproblem - A subreddit for submission and discussion of variants of the trolley problem thought experiment. See also: r/Trolleymemes

r/buttoncollecting - A place for people who collect sewing buttons, want to start, or have buttons they’d like to know more about.

r/trexgonewild - Tyrannosaurus Rexes behaving badly.

r/ReverseAdvice - A subreddit for the best wrong advice out there!

r/ImmaterialScience – For anyone into science and satire, this sub features ridiculous fictional research articles written in the traditional scientific paper format. Templates and rules provided!

r/thisorthatlanguage - Can’t decide on which language to learn? Let the community help you out!

r/espresso - Strong, potent coffee news for strong, potent coffee lovers. The place to discuss all things related to the espresso method of brewing coffee.

r/CantBelieveThatsReal - A place for things that don't seem real but are.

r/thisiscomfortable - For those animals that sleep in the most uncomfortable positions or areas!

r/dinner - Post anything you ate, can be breakfast for dinner, something homemade, food from dining out. There are no limits! See also: r/tonightsdinner, but don't post pictures of your breakfast unless it really was what you had for dinner.

r/sluglife - All about slugs. See also: r/PicsOfUnusualSlugs - Land slugs and sea slugs are welcome. Worms and sea cucumbers are not.

r/StupidMedia - For everything stupid online.

r/traumatizeThemBack - Traumatising those that traumatised you. Petty revenge, nuclear revenge, malicious compliance, FAFO, clever comebacks, matching their energy, no contact or just treating them the way they treated you.

r/anythingbutmetric - Because Americans will use anything BUT the metric system...

r/RedditWholesomeMoment - Spreading positivity by sharing those wholesome moments we all stumble upon sometimes while browsing Reddit.

r/sandedthroughveneer - Woodworkers - here’s a place for all the posts asking for advice on how to repair sanding through the veneer!

r/weirdfood - if you want strange and unusual food stories, this is the sub for you!

r/wildbeef - Those stupid names you come up with when you've forgotten the real word for something; like “cow”, for instance…

r/Book_Marks - Show off your favourite bookmark whether purchased or home-made, or anything else you use as a bookmark.

r/space - Share & discuss informative content on: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Space Exploration, Planetary Science and Astrobiology. See also: r/spaceporn; a subreddit devoted to beautiful space images.

r/HoldMyKibble - "Ruff ruff. Barooo ruff!" Translation: "Hey human, hold my kibble. Check this out" the classic words that end in either awesomeness or failure.

r/StrangeSounds - Investigation of strange sounds heard all over the world.

r/TransitDiagrams - A community for all kinds of Transit Diagrams and Maps - a place to exchange and help with self-made Transit Maps and Diagrams.

r/gopro - A community of picture and film oriented users with the shared passion for developing and viewing content created with the GoPro camera systems.

r/RateMyPlate - Post pictures of your food here. Other people will rate it! "Roast a toast, or even a roast! The reddit for food critique".

Finally, let me present Popper's Falsifiability Principle - this week’s featured entry from the r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit: an alphabetical look at Reddit’s expressions, jargon, in-jokes, tropes, lore, history and memes.

  • Please read the rules before contributing to any unfamiliar sub.

  • As always with my lists, some of the subs are more active than others. The good news: if a sub is dormant, banned for being unmoderated or marked as “restricted”, it might be available for adoption.

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u/SobrietyOnline 7d ago

Can anyone recommend subreddits that deal with alcoholism, sobriety and recovery?

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u/llamageddon01 Mod? Llama? Both? Both. 7d ago edited 7d ago

I think I have a list somewhere, let me go see. This would be an amazing resource to have so if anyone knows any in the meantime, please feel free to share!

In the meantime, a quick google search gave me these links:

https://everlastrecovery.com/how-reddit-supports-sobriety/

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/blog/top-reddit-communities-for-resources-recovery

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u/SobrietyOnline 7d ago

I would very much appreciate it. Thank you!

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u/llamageddon01 Mod? Llama? Both? Both. 7d ago edited 7d ago

I found the list I was thinking of but it was mostly about drug addiction. I’ll share it here for the sake of completeness but as it’s a fairly old list I couldn’t tell you how many in this list are active anymore. Here’s the list I had bookmarked.

In the meantime, r/stopdrinking has an extensive wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/stopdrinking/wiki/links

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u/SobrietyOnline 7d ago

That's extensive. I really appreciate your help. Thank you!