Reddit is what you make of it. The “front page of the internet” is really a collection of different subreddits, each with its own communities, rules, and cultures. The main idea is to subscribe to the subreddits that match your interests, so that your internet’s “front page” is tailored to you, not other users.
Still, it can be fun to browse the posts from subreddits that are blowing up across Reddit, even when you don’t personally subscribe to them. This is the purpose of r/popular and r/all: The former offers popular posts from a variety of subreddits, while the latter does the same, albeit with fewer filters. You might not want to browse r/all while you’re at work, for example, though Reddit says it doesn’t include sexually explicit content. Still, there may be other types of NSFW posts that appear here, that wouldn’t otherwise appear in r/popular.
Now, that’s changing.
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