Reddit does have a Second Life community, as it turns out, cleverly entitled /r/secondlife. Somehow this group didn't come up when I blogged about the need for one, but veteran SLer Francis Chung immediately pointed it out to me. However, it will probably need many more SLers to thrive, so jump on in and start Redditing.
Here's a great place to start: a Redditor who has played SL asks, "[W]hat's the appeal of Second Life and what advice would you give to a new user?" Knowing the Reddit community pretty well, I think game-centric SL content and machinima will probably get the most upvotes. Tateru Nino, another SL blogger, believes some Redditors have been systematically downvoting SL-related links, but if we can grow the sub-community sufficiently, that shouldn't matter. My recommendation: When submitting links, be very descriptive about why the topic is cool to a broader audience, and be discriminating about what you upvote -- randomly upvoting every single SL-related link is probably counter-productive. So jump on in! My own Reddit account (wait for it) is SLHamlet.
Update, 11:00am: I just created this introduction thread to connect SLers with Redditors and vice versa.
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