The difference as I see it is that the important things that appeal to the Slashdot crowd appear there about a day after it shows up on Reddit. On the social a

The difference as I see it is that the important things that appeal to the Slashdot crowd appear there about a day after it shows up on Reddit. On the social aggregators, you get stories a day early, but you have to filter through so much more stuff to get at interesting articles. Of the interesting stuff on social news sites like reddit, you tend to find more interesting things that never would make it onto slashdot.