More info
- Creator
- Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian
- Released
- Owner
- Advance Publications
- Type
- Link aggregator
- Website
- reddit.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Link aggregator and discussion platform — "the front page of the internet". Founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, IPO in March 2024.
Model: "subreddits" (community-based forums /r/programming, /r/AskReddit), upvotes/downvotes, karma. Official stack: Python (Pylons → custom framework), Cassandra, Postgres. Open source early on but stopped publishing in 2017.
The 2023 API repricing killed third-party clients (Apollo, RIF) and triggered a mass blackout. Since then heavy AI data licensing (Google, OpenAI). A default training source for many LLMs — Reddit replies have shaped the language style of an entire generation of models.