subreddit

English

sub- +‎ Reddit

subreddit (plural subreddits)

(Internet) Any of the subforums, generally intended for discussion of a specific topic, on the Reddit web site.
- 2015 July 21, Adrian Chen, “When the Internet’s ‘Moderators’ Are Anything But”, in New York Times‎:
  They wanted to give voice to their feeling, in one moderator’s words, that the company’s bosses ‘‘do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits,’’ as the individual forums are called.
- 2015, Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield, Lillian Lee, David Mimno, “What do Democrats do in their Spare Time? Latent Interest Detection in Multi-Community Networks”, in arXiv‎:
  We measure the similarity between entire subreddits both in terms of user similarity and topical similarity.