With 30 million unique visitors and close to 2 billion page views a month, it’s safe to say a lot happens on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit every day. There are more than 90,000 sections on the site; a single discussion alone can sometimes attract more than 10,000 comments.
How can anyone keep track of it all? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
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In case you haven’t heard, Reddit is going dark on January 18 to protest SOPA. The admins are asking what to do with the site while it’s blacked out. Meanwhile, at /r/TheoryOfReddit (where else?) some wonder if the SOPA threat is overblown. (r/blog)
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Giancarlo Esposito, better known as Gus Fring on Breaking Bad does an AMA. Here’s how it happened. (r/modclub)
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If you could time travel 2,000 years into the past, would your immune system still be effective? (/r/askscience)
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Two more interesting AMAs: a manager for Facebook’s site integrity team and a “nearly” 800lbs American man. (“Not suicidal by any means.” he writes, “but I do pretty much hate my life.”) (/r/IAmA)
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A new study says pot smoking does less damage to the lungs than tobacco smoking; three different news articles about the study hit the front page of /r/science. These guys really care about their pot news. (/r/science)
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“Reddit, teach me some street smarts,” camus_absurd asks in /r/AskReddit. D3PO tells how to survive on the mean streets of Sweden. (/r/bestof)
