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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“The amazing thing to me is how many people stuck with it, and made connections between ideas that sometimes didn’t resurface for years at a time.” A former X-Files writer takes to r/IAmA. (r/IAmA)
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“At no point have I seen the admins state that reddit is run ‘by an elite cabal of power-moderators’… but that’s essentially the truth,” redditor (and elite moderator) syncretic writes. (r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Zach Anner’s Reddit-based travel show, Riding Shotgun, has launched its first episode. (r/IAmA)
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Here’s yet another endearingly weird question from r/askscience. (r/askscience)
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COCK_SOFTLY describes how Reddit tends to confirm our biases, or as another redditor put it: “Reddit is a giant circlejerk divided into smaller circlejerks.” (r/MetaHub)
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After a successful experiment, r/LifeProTips is now a self-post-only subreddit. (r/MetaHub)
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Is “childhood” as we know it a recent invention? (r/AskHistorians)
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/r/wheredidthesodago takes Reddit by storm, at one point consuming “seven of the top twenty spots in /r/all within four hours of creation.” (r/MetaHub)
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A group of Reddit moderators petitioning to get into Reddit’s most exclusive club, r/ModTalk, post an open letter explaining their position. (r/MetaHub)
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How did Lance Armstrong pass so many doping tests? (r/askscience)
Pic of the day: The Four Seasons of the Bush. (r/pics)
Hottest subreddit: /r/RedditInTheNews (1 day)
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