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.[9][10][11]
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| Type of business | Private |
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Type of site | Social news |
| Available in | Multilingual[notes 1][1] |
| Founded | June 23, 2005[2] |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| 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. |
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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.[12][13]
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".
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
Other websites
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