Want to read Reddit but don’t have the time? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the social news site—every morning.
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Gawker’s Adrian Chen writes 3,000 words to prove that a tiny Reddit backwater with a pipe dream is indeed a tiny Reddit backwater with a pipe dream. And r/redditislandisn’t even that upset about it. (r/redditisland)
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How much better is r/bestof since it switched to posts from smaller subreddits? Bonus! An r/bestof bot. (r/bestof)
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This guy wants to pay $50 for a piece of work handcrafted by another redditor. (r/AskReddit)
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When you smack a fly in midair, why doesn’t it reduce to goo? (r/askscience)
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Can you handle this much Reddit angst? One of Reddit’s biggest critics, r/circlebroke, discusses Reddit’s other biggest critic, r/ShitRedditSays. (r/circlebroke)
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This guy has had 80 surgeries and was awake during one of them. (r/IAmA)
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Generique traveled the world doing whatever redditors told him to. It was, as he describes in his update, a “crazy, crazy summer.” (r/AskReddit)
Pic of the day: ITAP of my cat and a deer. (r/itookapicture)
Photo by Keith Laverack