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by mherdeg 1524 days ago
One of my favorite ways of discovering niche content has been browsing /r/all/gilded and taking a look at the variety of highlights throughout the site that never make it to the front page or other kinds of publicity.

I dug in there one time and found a fascinating obituary for a user on a subreddit for people living with addiction -- full of some touchingly personal and weirdly public stories. Following the user's profile from there taught me about the wild world of the "opiate roll call" subreddit (a thinly veiled Craigslist for drugs) which was at the time flourishing. Fascinating stuff.

2 comments

> browsing /r/all/gilded

These days that awards are free, that's just a list of popular things, not a list of cool things. The major subreddits can have a selfie posted that gets a dozen awards.

/r/chonkers is the holy grail of reddit. I was sad it took me 10 years to find that subreddit
How on earth is that animal abuse subreddit not banned? Those animals deserve a better life, not diabetes for the sake of memes.
What is wrong with you chaosbutters.