Everything about Reddit
American social news and discussion site
Reddit is an American social news website, news aggregator, forum and social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by subreddit-specific moderators, who are unpaid volunteers. It is operated by Reddit, Inc., based in San Francisco. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: RedditA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: How Do Peer Awards Motivate Creative Content? Experimental Evidence from RedditInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: We Are the NerdsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Pushshift Reddit DatasetCited 617 times
- Go sideways: Controversial Reddit communitiesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Steve HuffmanA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Proper noun Alternative form of Reddit
Verb Alternative form of Reddit.
Adjective Alternative form of Reddit.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
Mental Health Discourse on reddit: Self-Disclosure, Social Support, and Anonymity
Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics
Detection of Depression-Related Posts in Reddit Social Media Forum
Natural Language Processing Reveals Vulnerable Mental Health Support Groups and Heightened Health Anxiety on Reddit During COVID-19: Observational Study
An evaluation of document clustering and topic modelling in two online social networks: Twitter and Reddit
Examining thematic similarity, difference, and membership in three online mental health communities from reddit: A text mining and visualization approach
Public sentiment analysis and topic modeling regarding COVID-19 vaccines on the Reddit social media platform: A call to action for strengthening vaccine confidence
🆕 Influential since 2022
How Do Peer Awards Motivate Creative Content? Experimental Evidence from Reddit
Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research
Quarantined! Examining the Effects of a Community-Wide Moderation Intervention on Reddit
“I just like the stock”: The role of Reddit sentiment in the GameStop share rally
(In)visible moderation: A digital ethnography of marginalized users and content moderation on Twitch and Reddit
📚 Books worth reading
We Are the NerdsChristine Lagorio-Chafkin · 2014
Revolutionary services and civil life of General William HullMaria Campbell · 1848
Oedipus in the RawLeon Avernicus · 2019
Growth Hacking RedditJonathan Rintala · 2025- 📕Understanding RedditElliot T. Panek · 2021
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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