The content of Reddit is completely driven by that Puerto Rico sized community of users, not by any kind of professional staff. Basically, if you just visit the site and don’t log in, you’ll get the default feed which only includes posts from 50 popular subreddits, which leaves out the other 9000+ active communities.
This is an important distinction, because to actually use Reddit in a way that is tailored to your tastes or to comment, you must be logged in. This would make it about the size of the combined populations of Germany, Italy, and the UK. But if you look at how many people actually log into their account within a month, it would be more like the size of Puerto Rico at about 3.5 million. In spite of looking like an internet message board from the late 90’s, if Reddit were to be transformed into its own country, it’s 202 million unique monthly visitors would make it the sixth most populous in the world. Reddit is such a large and diverse website that it’s difficult to fully appreciate without understanding the bigger picture. This slight detour before the learning part is important. Part 1 is an overview on how to actually use and navigate Reddit, part 2 focuses on the Reddit podcast, and part 3 is the guide on how to turn the Reddit feed into a continuous stream of interesting things you can learn from. To gain this full idea of what Reddit is, I broke this post into three parts for easy navigation. Just like with podcasts, it takes a little context first to fully appreciate how to turn Reddit into a learning portal. The key is knowing that you can set up Reddit in a very tailored way to feed you an endless supply of the specific topics you most want to learn about. If you want a place to find amazing discussions and amazing things you didn’t know, also no problem. If you want a mindless place to pass the time, no problem. It’s easy to dismiss Reddit as a collection of cat memes (no better place to find them though), but it’s really just a mini version of the internet, where you can get out of it whatever you’d like. The amount of value from the comments, ideas, books, podcasts and other websites I’ve encountered while on Reddit is greater than any other site I’ve ever used.
Most people have heard that Reddit is the “front page” of the internet, but a description I like better is that it’s one of the best hubs for learning on the internet.
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