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For those who aren't giant space nerds (like me) the very best place to get info on SpaceX and SpaceX launches has always been Reddit's /r/SpaceX[0]. The launch today (like all launches) has a dedicated thread[1] with mods keeping all details up to date, all links that matter organized.

It's 100% not sponsored or run by SpaceX, but honestly it's probably doing a better job than a corporate PR side could manage. Fantastic amount of details on everything in their wiki and posts, and friendly people who answer questions happily.

[0] https://reddit.com/r/spacex

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/glwz6n/rspacex_cctc...



Many reddit communities are like that. Not sure what they did to collect such folks on single place, but reddit is something else.


Well, mostly, they replaced Usenet and a hodge-podge jumble of forum sites running generic interfaces where you have to click to a new page for every 50 comments (or less), which have no comment reply nesting.

Reddit brought a more useful/readable interface, allowed anonymous accounts with no email address, and had a very simple & powerful (if flawed) voting system. This attracted content creators of all kinds, which led to a rapidly growing audience, and it snowballed.

I don't like one company owning all this stuff, but I do love what users in niche subs have created there. With a massive general audience comes better populated niches, excellence riding the coattails of the mediocre. Also, should Condé Nast ever screw the pooch here, plenty of clones are waiting in the wings.


> Also, should Condé Nast ever screw the pooch here, plenty of clones are waiting in the wings.

I'm really hoping they don't, because I don't think a replacement coulg gain traction as long as reddit is functioning.


> It's 100% not sponsored or run by SpaceX

but it feels like it is sometimes


There are a lot of fanboys in there for sure, but /r/spacex sometimes gets close to industrial espionage.




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