Reddit (/ˌrɛˈdɪt/) is a website where people share links to articles, media and other things on the web. The website is organized into "subreddits", communities within the Reddit community to discuss certain topics or to look at specific content. The posted links can be voted on, and the links with most votes are displayed on the front page of the website. Reddit was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and is also available in other languages. People in the Reddit community call themselves "redditors".[8] Subreddits are directed towards all sort of things, like education, being funny, cute pictures of animals, internet memes, and more.
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Available in | Multilingual[notes 1][1] |
| Founded | June 23, 2005[2] |
| No. of locations | 5 |
| Area served | Worldwide, except for Indonesia (without DNS) and China |
| Owner | Advance Publications (30%)[3] Tencent (5%)[4] |
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| Industry | |
| Employees | 2,000 (June 2023)[5] |
| Parent | Reddit Inc. |
| Website |
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| Advertising | Banner ads and promoted links |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional[notes 2] |
| Users | 70 million (Oct 2023) DAU[6] |
| Current status | Active |
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Reddit has occasionally been the topic of controversy due to the presence of subreddits devoted to disinformation, explicit, or controversial material, including subreddits r/Creepshots, r/jailbait, and r/greenandpleasant.[9][10]
Site overview
Reddit is a website comprising user-generated content that can be discussed like a forum.
Reddit's core content consists of posts from its users.
Users and moderators
Reddit users are called "redditors." Moderators are called "mods".
Subreddits
Discussions on Reddit are organized into user-created areas of interest called "subreddits".
RedditSubreddits Media
Co-founder Alexis Ohanian speaking in 2009
Reddit's headquarters in the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco
Nathan Allen speaks to the American Chemical Society about the r/science community.
Original Reddit wordmark (2005–2018), still seen on the "classic" Reddit interface
Mister Splashy Pants logo, used on November 27, 2007
Message that reddit users receive when getting banned from a subreddit
Notes
- ↑ The site's display interface is available in several common languages, but most of its user-submitted content is written in English with no built-in translation feature. Individual subreddits may opt to cater to a specific language, only allowing posts and comments to be in that language.
- ↑ Reddit can be viewed without an account but registration is required to submit, comment or vote. Registration is also occasionally required to view posts marked as Not safe for work.
- ↑ Previously written in Lisp, then rewritten in Python in 2005.
References
- ↑ "What languages is Reddit available in?". Reddit Help.
- ↑ "Reddit on June 23-05". December 5, 2006. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
- ↑ Goswami, Rohan (June 1, 2023). "Reddit will charge hefty fees to the many third-party apps that access its data". CNBC.
- ↑ Kelly, Keith (June 16, 2023). "Condé Nast's hold on Reddit slips but Newhouse family has cushion". New York Post.
- ↑ Ludlow, Edward (June 6, 2023). "Reddit joins the tech layoff trend by cutting 5% of its staff amid a stalled IPO and effort to stop losing money". Fortune. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
- ↑ "Homepage - Reddit". www.redditinc.com.
- ↑ "Seeing the forest in the trees: two years of technology changes in one post". Reddit. January 17, 2023. Retrieved July 1, 2023.
- ↑ "About Reddit". Retrieved August 17, 2015.
- ↑ Morris, Kevin (11 October 2011). What r/jailbait's closure really means. https://redditdownloader.us/blog/subreddit. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
- ↑ Chen, Adrian (12 October 2012). Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121012213707/http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
