Nor could I be sure I wasn’t falling for a devious scheme by the subreddit’s volunteer moderators to certify white users as black. Few users of the one I was writing about, Black People Twitter, would disclose their real names, so I couldn’t search the web for a picture. Reddit is home to thousands of topic-based communities, or “subreddits,” where privacy is held sacrosanct and pseudonyms are the norm.
