The odd thing is, for all its influence, Reddit doesn’t really do anything; there are no apps, no games, no profiles to speak of. Their New York office is in a co-working space and smaller than my bedroom. The site itself is just a raw list of links submitted by the users, who vote, and comment, and comment on the comments, and modify, and repost all day long, in what feels like the world’s biggest group of friends sitting on the world’s longest couch. Few Redditors know each other’s names, let alone ever meet in person, yet their bond is no less close for being anonymous: a forty-year-old
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