[efrank02]

I’ve never spent time on r popular or the main page. If you only spend time in subs Reddit is very well designed and I think less exploitative than other social media

[frakkingcylons]

My issue is that you can’t serendipitously stumble upon random interesting subreddits without using the front page.

[optimalsolver]

Find subreddits by similarity:

https://trevor.shinyapps.io/subalgebra/

[patrickk]

Search a topic through multireddit and you’ll often find users collection of related subreddits on a given topic, e.g. DIY

https://old.reddit.com/user/patrick_k/m/diy/

[joker99]

Really? To me, the journey has been the other way around. Almost all of the subreddits I am subscribed to, I've stumbled upon by pure luck and coincidence. And more importantly: organically. I personally don't want recommendations, most algos are really bad

[hobofan]

> serendipitously

You could subscribe to /r/Serendipity which posts a few posts from random subs a day.

[OscarCunningham]

https://old.reddit.com/r/random/

[omegabravo]

recommendations work well, but that's practically the only method.