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? Starting today, you’ll just need to check the Daily Dot. Our daily Reddit digest will highlight the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
Here’s a quick summary of the more entertaining and edifying things happening on Reddit this morning.
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“Be Ashamed to Die, Until You Have Scored Some Victory for Humanity”: scientist and educator Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks Reddit with an AMA. (Actually, not entirely true: Reddit was down early this morning due to database issues.)
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Redditor sycretic says removing the ban on self posts in /r/politics was the wrong decision.
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“Why does Reddit run EVERY SINGLE FUCKING JOKE INTO THE GROUND?” sheershaw asks on /r/AskReddit, to which /r/WTF replies by running two jokes into the ground at once (ligers!).
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In r/AskScience, ZBoson ponders on the subjectivity of experience.
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Also in /r/askscience , /r/videos asks for help understanding carbon nanotubes.
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TIL if publicity isn’t your thing, you don’t want to be the first person to decline a Nobel Prize.
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/r/TrueReddit continues a thoughtful debate on child abuse and general American hysteria towards sex offenders.
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/r/MapPorn shows that Tokyo could devour a good chunk of England.
