Reddit is an online platform that provides a forum for individuals to create and share content on a wide variety of topics such as politics, beauty or entertainment. The site features discussion areas where users can comment, discuss or vote on content posted by other users. Additionally, Reddit is used by freelance bloggers and news publishers to share content with their community. Reddit was launched in 2005 and currently it has more than 500 million monthly visitors. The company was acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.
Alternatives to Reddit
4chan
Company: 4chan community support LLC | Founder: Christopher Poole | CEO: Hiroyuki Nishimura | Since: 2003
4chan is an imageboard website that allows users to share their images and post comments anonymously, as they are not required to register in order to post content on the site. The site features a variety of boards on different…
Stumbleupon
Company: StumbleUpon, Inc. | Founder: Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Eric Boyd | CEO: Mark Bartels | Since: 2001
StumbleUpon is an online platform that allows its users to discover and explore interesting and new things. Through its discovery engine, StumbleUpon searches the web for content according to the tastes and interests of its users. Besides serving individual users,…
Quora
Company: Quora, Inc. | Founder: Adam D'Angelo Charlie Cheever | CEO: Adam D'Angelo | Since: 2009
Quora is an online question and answer portal. Users can post questions or answer them in a huge number of topics, including news, music, medicine, entertainment, languages, technology, politics, cooking, and social media. Founded in California by two former facebook…
9gag
Company: 9GAG, Inc. | Founder: Ray Chan | CEO: Ray Chan | Since: 2008
9GAG is an online and mobile platform that features user-generated content, such as videos and images. 9GAG's platform also enables users to upload humorous content from other social media sites. Among the content categories featured in 9GAG are comedy, pranks,…
Digg
Company: Digg | Founder: Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson | CEO: John Borthwick | Since: 2004
Digg selects content that is interesting and entertaining and shares them online for free. Digg has a slew of editors and they look for material, available on the net, that is current and will be enjoyed by their users. Articles…
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