5 Finally, there’s Reddit.com. I resisted checking out Reddit for the longest time, but I finally caved. Verdict: it’s good once optimized for our purposes. Reddit is actually quite similar to FOAMbase once you’ve set it up. For better or worse, there is a ton of other content on Reddit, and unfortunately, by default that content is thrust upon you when you first join (and it is pretty terrible content at that). In fact, if you make a Reddit account, the first thing you will want to do is find the “edit” button, find “my subreddits,” and unsubscribe from everything that you were automatically subscribed to. After that, you can search for FOAMed (www.reddit.com/r/foamed) and subscribe only to it. Once you’ve done that, you will have created a beautiful haven of FOAM-only links similar to Feedly and FOAMbase. The links in the FOAMed subreddit are only ones that other users have actively added to the feed. That’s unlike Feedly, which incorporates new FOAMed posts automatically regardless of the quality. Like FOAMbase, you can easily add suggestions of your own, and you can easily promote your own FOAM if you are trying to get the word out on your new blog or podcast. Both FOAMbase and Reddit have comment sections, though these are currently fairly quiet.

So there you have it: five ways to find great FOAM content without—perish the thought—having to be on Twitter.

Dr. Faust is an emergency-medicine resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens. He tweets about #FOAMed and classical music @jeremyfaust.

Reference

1. Thoma B, Joshi N, Trueger NS, et al. Five strategies to effectively use online resources in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med. 2014;64:392-395.