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 /r/videos, there’s an appeal to honor the dying wish of a cancer victim who’s taken to broadcasting his struggle on YouTube—except redditors come up with a lot of pretty good reasons why the video may be fake. Redditor Gordopolis even posted the results of his visual investigation as an Imgur album. (/r/videos)
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Redditors are turning their attention from Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. and (Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Europe to another Internet “censorship bill”—a piece of legislation in Canada called C11. (/r/AskReddit)
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Yesterday’s most urgent discussion from /r/AskReddit: “What is the closest we’ve ever come to a real life Bond villain?” Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar takes the most-upvoted prize, but L. Ron Hubbard with his fleet of Scientology boats isn’t far behind, nor is Muammar Gaddafi and his ninja assassins. Frankly, though, this somewhat buried discussion on Kim Jong Il is most convincing. (/r/AskReddit)
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Today I learned AIDS originated in the belly of a Cameroonian chimp in 1908 after it ate two other monkeys suffering from two different viruses. From the belly of a turn-of-the-century ape, an epidemic that’s killed millions. (/r/todayilearned)
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This /r/science thread on how CO2 emissions are raising acidity levels in the ocean is just a terrible, terrible way to begin your Monday. (/r/science)
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There’s strange drama in /r/gaming, where a redditor says she close to releasing an massively multiplayer online game (MMO) where all the player characters are dragons. She made the game herself, she says, after two years of hard work. Except beyond weird questions about dragon fornication, redditors have mostly taken to calling BS on her story. Except, wait a second, maybe she’s telling the truth? It’s not the first time redditors have launched an unfair witch hunt. “There is a whole drama FOREST in that thread!” writes Hirosheb in /r/SubredditDrama. “Go to any comment and bring the popcorn.” (/r/gaming)