I have been looking for something more substantial than Reddit for some time now and I saw this post on /r/TheoryOfReddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/15goza/is_re.../
I was sick and tired of having to switch up my subreddit list in order to retain the quality of my homepage. I have not been a very active poster for two years now or since I began having to click load more comments at the bottom of threads, but I was still spending hours upon hours every day lurking. And then something in me must have snapped so I began googling for Reddit replacements (at first) and other kinds of internet communities. Tried to join MeFi too but I figured it wasn't my thing. Then last week, as I was going through my old comments for nostalgia's sake I remembered /r/TheoryOfReddit. I subscribed to that subreddit when it was first created but it seems to have been culled from my subreddits during one of my regular purges. Anyway, so I found that thread, clicked the link that leads to this site, and browsed around. And I'm liking what I'm seeing so far. But I don't know what you guys do during your off times. I keep seeing you guys mention visiting each other in real life. So what do you do here that makes you people form such tight bonds? What makes this community tick?