Effective Altruism subreddit
I’m sharing the Effective Altruism subreddit on Reddit.com for those of you who haven’t seen it yet.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/
We are a newer discussion community with over a thousand subscribers. Overall activity is comparable to the EA forum here, but we are more oriented towards less formal discussion, ideas and questions. So if you have a small question or idea to discuss, it is a good place to go.
One of the main benefits of being on Reddit is that it preserves your anonymity in online discussions. In addition, the Reddit format is better for discussions and voting than Facebook, which has a format optimized for cheap social media reactions and sharing.
For these or other reasons, there have been many people on Reddit who are interested in effective altruism yet don’t want to open Facebook accounts just to be able to participate in community discussion. By being over-reliant on Facebook, the community is missing out on many people’s ideas and is unable to reach out to many of them.
So, if you have a Reddit account or just want to lurk, I would encourage you to follow the community.
Reddit is one of the most visited sites on the web so this might give EA more exposure. People should subscribe and downvote things that are not relevant and contribute to the discussions with helpful links etc...
Great, thanks for sharing! I don’t use reddit enough, but will try to swing by regularly.
Why are link submissions disabled?
If I recall correctly it was because it was getting filled up with links that nobody read or discussed. But if you have a particularly good link to share then you can add it with a short summary as a discussion post.