Slate: The Great and Powerful Reddit
How the site went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force.
By Farhad Manjoo
Updated Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at 6:32 PM ET
Of all the sites that went dark on Wednesday to protest Congress’ misguided anti-piracy legislation, Reddit was the one I missed most. Sure, there were a couple times when Wikipedia would have provided the perfect answer for my mindless Web searches (who invented the bidet?), and I never like a day without BoingBoing, but Reddit occupies a unique position in my online diet.
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