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Reddit is known best for its wide variety of links submitted to the main site, which allow you to directly click to a new story or picture. Well, there is more to reddit than just thousands of links covering numerous different points of interest. Once you dig deeper down into what reddit has to offer, you will find 8 different communities (also know as a subreddits). Each of these communities consist of a different topic (Politics and Programming are two of the more popular ones) and are there for people who would prefer to only see content that matches those topics. Understanding the subcultures within reddit is an important part of understanding how to be successful on reddit as a whole.

These different subreddits are located on the top right-hand side of reddit.

Clicking on a community will bring up its own reddit page with only links consisting of that topic (each having their own unique alien logo ;)).

Getting back to the main reddit is simple, just clicking on the logo in the top left-hand side or you can click on where it says ‘reddit.com’ in the other communities.

The eight different communities are: programming, science, politics, business, gadgets, sports, gaming and entertainment. These communities divide the political savvy, to the people who just enjoy gossip entertainment news (two obvious different points of interest.)

Submitting a link is basically the same as submitting a link on the main reddit page. Although in the programming, science and politics communities you have the ability to submit the link also to the main reddit. The link will then show up in both of the ‘new’ pages (the main reddit and the subreddit you submitted it to.)

These communities really add to reddit and make it easier for the user to dig deeper down into the links they really want to read and directly match their interests. For many new users, it is a less intimidating way (and sometimes easier) way to build up your karma and understand how reddit works.

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