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How do you browse by topic categories (e.g., Gaming, News, Learning)?

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Reddit organizes content into broad topic categories that serve as a navigational alternative to searching for specific community names. These categories are accessible from the Reddit navigation bar and from the Explore or Topics section available on both desktop and mobile. On the desktop site, clicking on a category like Gaming, News, Sports, Technology, or Learning takes you to a curated page that aggregates popular posts from communities within that topic area, along with a list of communities associated with the category. Topic categories function as a middle layer between the platform-wide Popular feed and individual subreddits. They are broader than any single subreddit but more focused than the homepage, making them useful for users who have a general interest in an area but are not yet sure which specific communities to join. For example, clicking the Gaming category shows posts from r/gaming, r/Games, r/PS5, r/pcgaming, r/NintendoSwitch, and many other gaming-related communities all in a single feed, ranked by engagement. Reddit's topic categories are editorially defined by Reddit itself, not by user voting or community input. This means the categories reflect Reddit's broad taxonomy of interest areas rather than the specific terminology any individual community might use to describe itself. Some niche or interdisciplinary communities may be categorized in ways that feel imprecise — a community about the history of technology, for instance, might appear under both Learning and Technology. On mobile, these categories are typically surfaced through the Explore tab in the bottom navigation bar, which presents topic tiles you can tap to enter category feeds. The experience is designed for discovery by new users who are not yet sure what communities exist within their areas of interest. Browsing topic categories is an efficient starting point before drilling down into individual subreddits, and it exposes you to communities you would likely never encounter by searching for specific keywords alone.

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