I try to tell people this all the time. It's a great source for information, just don't judge it by the front-page and definitely unsubscribe from a lot of the default subreddits. Up to about early 2011, I depended on a vast network of blogs I subscribed to in Google reader to get info in my various interests. But by the time Google Reader was shut down I had long abandoned it and going to various subreddits for the same, or even better info.