Subreddit of the week!

An introduction to Reddit. 

Hey lovelies, going to restart this…blogging shizzle. Yes. Shizzle. And themed post are so fun and readers love predictability and my brain (really), so have some of both!

If you don’t know about Reddit, well, now you do. Reddit is the best. It’s the website I was looking for, for SO LONG. It just has all the things. All of them. In reading form. What is this magical Reddit you ask? It’s a forum. Don’t back away. It’s a place for anyone to talk about anything with other people who want to talk about the same thing. And it’s really well organized for that.

Anything from geopolitics to lactation to sex to losing weight to juicing diets to really scary things you only find online to whatever it is in life you love. There is a place for everything. All under its own subreddit – a themed forum space, if you will.

It’s a place for you to gather and discuss, or bitch, or argue, or learn about whatever it is you want to know, or even just have your own opinions confirmed (because that’s the best, am I right?). It’s a place to share, or overshare, or ask, or just lurk and read what other people say and pretty much never comment ever (like me, because I are lurker). It is glorious.

So how does one use this magical place of glory?

Well, you can not sign up, and just browse. That’s fun. Say you want to know about…parenting. Or micropenises. Or cats. Or activities with toddlers. Or seasonal depression. No, this is totally not a list of the last things I searched for. Just type it into search, and link browse. Kind of like wikipedia, but better because I say so. Anyway, it links to wikipedia enough so quit whining.

Or, you sign up, and personaliiiize. Which is good, because then you can alter what you see (like I said, your own opinions back at you is the best, am I right…ok, I’ll stop). Then the “front page” just lists popular “threads” (a page about a single topic, within said themed space) from subreddits (themed spaces) that you subscribe to. Which is better, because echo chamber.

Get it? Well, if you don’t, go explore. You will the get the hang of it soon enough. If not, write to me, I am good at helping. I have many a computer illiterate in my family. I know how to do this (yes, my little brother is better at teaching stuff than me. Shush.)

tl;dr If you know what that means, you didn’t need this guide. 

SO THEN WHAT IS THE SUBREDDIT OF THE WEEK, KAT??

Map Porn. Aww, yeah. No, it’s not pictures of people doing weird things with maps, seriously?? It’s about maps and information and stuff. Bad explanation. Pictures are better (Click on them if they are too small to read, it opens in a new tab):

See how it’s all in the warmer areas? Makes sense.

God, I love languages. See how things change? Funny where the borders lie, and they shift with different words.

Fascinating. But then, this is obviously through a Western lens. *echo chamber*

Africa on top.

Krakatoa was the loudest sound, ever. Here’s how far it was heard.

Scandinavia is tiiiiiiny.

Hope you enjoyed this at least as much as I do! Any requests, let me know.