reddit calls itself "the front page of the internet". It's a bulletin-board-like domain with lots of sub-categories, easy posting of items, and one-click voting for or against those items. Popular articles and photos percolate "upwards". Tools exist to sort and view them in various dimensions. It's a fast way to find and share and prioritize gossipy-newsy links and essays for browsing entertainment.

Even more fascinating are some reddit terms used in article titles. Archetypal examples:

• TIL = "Today I Learned" — lead-in to an amusing factoid or other discovery
• IAmA = "I am a ..." — introducing a brief self-description
• AMA = Ask Me Anything — invitation to Q&A dialogue

A huge amount of reddit is bogus, obscene, angry, etc. A subset, however, is rather amusing — in a watching-a-train-wreck sort of mode. What a wonderful new world the Internet has given us!

(cf. MustLoveDogs (2006-08-27), Go Out and Play (2009-09-07), Billion Wicked Thoughts (2012-04-24), ...) - ^z - 2012-12-08