What is Reddit?

REDDIT has become one of the most popular websites for discussions and social news since its inception in 2005.

As of 2023, Reddit ranks as the 10th-most visited website in the world and the 6th-most-visited website in the United States.

What is Reddit and how does it work?

Reddit is a social news aggregation website that covers a variety of topics posted by its users.

Registered members of the website can share content like links, images, and texts and can interact with other users regarding the post.

Posts are typically organized by subject into categories called "communities" or "subreddits."

Users can vote the post with a thumbs up or down and the one with the most positive votes appears towards the top of their subreddit.

If the post receives enough thumbs up it gets featured on the site's front page.

The website is completely free and does not require an email address to access, just a username in order to start posting.

Why is it called Reddit?

The name Reddit is a play-on-words with the phrase "read it."

Users of the website call themselves “redditors.”

The site’s headquarters is located in San Francisco, California, and offers multilingual versions for users around the globe.

Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October of 2006, shortly after it was founded.

Five years later, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications.

In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Chinese conglomerate Tencent raised the company's valuation to $3 billion.