Seekers of non political content, unite

submitted by PurpleAmathea from (self.whatever)

Although there's a two week moratorium on creating new subs, there's a lot of subs that already exist and are simply dead, full of spam, or otherwise uninspiring.

So here's the deal: find a sub youre interested in posting non-political content to, and then post it here, and other users who are looking to invigorate the non political side of saidit can check it out, maybe post some content, maybe provide enough upvote it floats up in /all and other users will visit the sub and give it the breath of life.

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[–]PurpleAmathea[S] 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I've been posting in s/books, s/asksaidit, and s/aww thus far. Will keep an eye out for others I might have something to add to.

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

If you like Science-like stuff:
/s/Science
/s/Physics
/s/Space
/s/AskScience
/s/Biology
/s/Archeology
/s/Technology
/s/PureMathematics

/s/Writing
/s/WritingPrompts (just started)

/s/LifeIsBeautiful
/s/Movies
/s/Piracy
/s/Streaming
/s/Music
/s/MusicVideos
/s/Meditation

Weird stuff:
/s/C_S_T
/s/Paranormal
/s/UFO

Partially Political:
/s/changemyview
/s/Documentaries
/s/funny
/s/Hacking

[–]PurpleAmathea[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I assume you mean s/writingprompts

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes.. Corrected.

[–]marmorsymphata 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The huge sub numbers on some of these despite no actual participation is weirding me out

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it used to be that new accounts were auto-subbed to everything, that's why some are so high

[–]Fictionsaur 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks for creating s/WritingPrompts. It looks even better than the reddit version.

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We are going to make a great place here.
I really liked wrtingprompts when it was not well-known on reddit.

[–]Fictionsaur 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I submitted plenty of stories there before it became [WP] You are part of a society with an absurd system and you fall in love with a girl opposite to you while you can see numbers floating over every person's head and also aliens are attacking.

I'd suggest leaving the subsaidit more open instead of the strict regulations the original had.

[–]Jashfior 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I will try to post once every day in /s/TIL since TIL is one of those things I really appreciate with Reddit. I'll see how long I'll have content for it and how long I'll go on. I can't promise that I will not repost things that have been on Reddit previously; I reckon it is still better than nothing at all. Obviously it will be stuff that I consider interesting, so we'll see if the rest of you will like it.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

TIL I need to check out s/TIL at least once a day.

[–]aThievingStableboy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

asdfasdf

[–]filbs111 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

https://saidit.net/s/programming

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You can also browse the most popular sub list:
https://saidit.net/subs/popular/

[–]BravoHotel 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I spent so long being afraid of the inevitable downvotes that it is going to take a bit before I start my own threads...and that was in non-political subs. Writing that is an odd revelation for me since I left, in part, for the subs I wasn't subbed to rather than the toxic subs that I was subbed to.

[–]teelo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suspect that on Reddit, when you make a thread and notice it quickly gets downvoted, whats actually happening is someone else just posted their own thread and downvoted all the other ones on /new in hopes boosting visibility of their own thread. And all the authors of all the other threads on /new did the same thing, leading to every thread initially being heavily downvoted. Probably one of the reasons why Reddit removed seeing how many points below Zero a thread gets.

[–]Nemesis 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've been doing that with /s/obscuremedia , chill place to post any media just shy of mainstream.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, update two days later.

It looks like s/TIL is on fire and s/asksaidit is pretty good place as well -- it'll always have at least a few political questions and stuff about the Reddit wars, but now it has a few other things going. I'll just check it every day, and if looks like it has a lull, I'll pitch in a question. . . It looks like s/aww has enough for a once a day check, so you've down well to get the log rolling. I feel like this wave of new users has been a success.

Other than that, when my two weeks is up I'll be start setting up some subs.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Does anyone see or have any interest any useful stock and economics discussions? The only reason I still go to reddit is wallstreetbets. And I hate how blue pilled they’ve become.

Obviously politics and economics are almost inextricably intertwined but I prefer my economic discussions to place the Econ first and leave out too much ideology.

[–]King_Brutus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's going to take time to build up solid communities so everyone is filtered into the main page for now.

[–]PM_ME_DARKNESS_LEWDS 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

/s/animemes getting bigger would make me very happy