Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Peerler

Peerler, Apr 07, 2026

Readers familiar with Reddit will know it's a discussion website divided into topics (known as subreddits) where each topic consists of an endless series of posts realted (usually) to that topic. What is special about TReddit is that readers can 'upvote' or 'downvote' specific posts or comments. This website is the same as Reddit except it has academic subjects (known as 'communities', such as 'education' and 'anthropology') instead of subreddits, and each new post is an academic article in that field. People can read the article (they're all open access) and comment on them. Presumably the best articles will receive the most upvotes. It's all very new, the 'education' community has 7 followers, and there's no philosophy community yet. This might never be successful, but I like the thinking behind it.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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Last Updated: Apr 07, 2026 2:44 p.m.

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