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Internet grows up! Reddit welcomes LGBT and feminist websites

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Social bookmarking site Reddit has finally jumped ahead of its rivals and outgrown puberty.

While Digg is infamously homophobic and Fark deeply misogynistic, it’s a breath of fresh air to see a mainstream social bookmarking site that not only tolerates but actually welcomes LGBT and feminist content.

Reddit underwent a redesign this week, and has emerged with a triumphant new feature: users can now tick which types of content they want to read. So no more trawling through endless Ron Paul and 9/11 conspiracy stories to get to what you actually want to read. Unless Ron Paul and 9/11 are what you actually want to read, of course.

There are many many types of content to subscribe to in the new Reddit, including, to our surprise and delight, ‘LGBT‘ and ‘feminisms‘. (We’re not sure why there’s a plural there, one feminism would’ve been sufficient, but let’s not complain.)

These categories are currently pretty underused - at time of writing there were 580 Reddit users signed up for the LGBT news, and 441 for feminisms, compared to 10,380 in the ‘WTF’ category and 3,020 just for ‘lolcats’ . But hopefully as word gets out, more LGBT and feminist bloggers/website pubishers/readers will use the categories and build their success.
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