sub-reddit

plural sub-reddits

1. alternativeAlternative form of subreddit.

   The arguments got so bad that at one point the Bitcoin community on Reddit split in half, with two separate sub-reddits serving each constituency.

   2018, Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 74

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   A number of prominent Reddit users rallied to Violentacrez’s defense, and they also defended their own right to act anonymously in setting up sub-reddits as they wished, regardless of the content.

   2014, Carrie James, Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 97

   The politically incorrect board, like the broader set of online forums such as racist sub-reddits, provided a place for extremist recruiters to potentially find inchoate White heterosexual cismale anger and channel it.

   2022, Jessica L. Beyer, “Trolls and Hacktivists: Political Mobilization from Online Communites”, in Deana A. Rohlinger, Sarah Sobieraj, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part IV (Digital Media, Community, and Identity), page 430

plural sub-Reddits

1. alternativeAlternative form of subreddit.

   A malicious actor had intentionally posted the video into various sub-Reddits with different headlines, trying to determine which would spark the fiercest emotional response.

   2022, Jason Steinhauer, History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, page 68

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   Somewhere deep within the sub-Reddits, the surface web blended with his more familiar surroundings of the Enter The Dark message board that he made such great use of down on the dark web.

   2018, Chris Thomas, The Edge of Sanity: A Dark Psychological Thriller, Bloodhound Books, →ISBN

   Reddit is generally reluctant to step into debates about content, preferring to play the role of an impartial or neutral platform and to leave the task of moderating the site to the moderators of individual sub-Reddits.

   2019, Nicolas P. Suzor, Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 142