Eh, I know plenty of 30-somethings who would be excited about robot godzilla movies. Once something gets as big as reddit it's probably difficult to call it a

Eh, I know plenty of 30-somethings who would be excited about robot godzilla movies. Once something gets as big as reddit it's probably difficult to call it a "community" in any real sense. It's a community in the same way that usenet (in it's entirety) is a community. Front page stuff is going to naturally be things that appeals to the largest cross section of people, you see this on HN too to an extent. A blog post talking about a novel application of an obscure algorithm languishes at the bottom with 10 comments whilst "popular blogger bashes Windows 8" gets to the top with ~300 comments. I like to think of subreddits more as an easier alternative to installing phpBB than as a part of the whole.