Reddit

Reddit is the best Social Media App

If Facebook is people you know sharing things you don’t care about, Reddit is things you care about shared by people you don’t know.

• 1. Reddit Is Designed for Anonymity

  In our online world, it's almost impossible to remain anonymous. For a variety of reasons, users are required to give personal details about themselves, even if they're a bit unnecessary.
  Commonly, social media sites require information such as your name, birthday, email address, contact numbers, and so on. In some cases, social media sites also require documents like your IDs, addresses, or photos. On Reddit, users can use its service without having to reveal any details about themselves that they are not comfortable with. Aside from a username and an email address, users do not need to use their real names or reveal their faces when engaging on it.

  
  
• 2. Content-Driven Social Credibility

  While other platforms put a premium on followers, engagement rates, and network size to determine social credibility, Reddit uses the Karma system.
  On Reddit, Karma is initially calculated by subtracting the total downvotes a person receives on their posts and comments from total upvotes—with a total Karma score awarded for each category. It's a much fairer way of determining how much a user contributes to subreddits on the platform. Unlike other social media platforms wherein it is common to find services to fake your follower counts, likes, or comments, there aren't many services that you can use to fake Reddit's karma ratings. Not to mention that soliciting or paying for Karma is strictly against its community guidelines.

  
  
• 3. Strong Niche Communities

  At its core, Reddit is a place where people come together to share their questions, thoughts, opinions, and experiences. Whether it's a place to discuss serious topics like politics or a fun space wherein people share cute cat content, there's a subreddit for almost every type of interest group. Reddit makes it easy to interact with strangers from all over the world around shared interests or things you have in common. Without names attached to faces, some discussions are even easier to have.. For example, the NIH previously hosted an official "Ask Me Anything" or AMA regarding rare disease research and gene-based approach therapy in 2021. An AMA is basically an open forum wherein Reddit users can ask questions to professionals, field specialists, or people with interesting backgrounds. NIH AMA on Reddit
  During the NIH AMA, Reddit users were able to ask questions about animal testing, the effects of the internet on rare disease communities, and addressing the inequity of the healthcare system. For Reddit users who have struggled with rare illnesses, Reddit contains many channels wherein they can share their experiences and raise awareness about their condition.

  
  
• 4. Reddit is a personalized Digital World

  Not only can you find things you care about on Reddit, you can curate your experience, too. While the front page of the site defaults to being populated by recent posts from some of the biggest subreddits, anyone who signs up as a member can chop and change the subreddits they’re subscribed to so that they get an experience that’s tailored to them. In this way, the Reddit experience for someone who just wants to look at pictures of cute dogs is entirely different to that of someone who wants to chat about philosophy (or make fun of people who chat about philosophy), find niche pornography (clearly NSFW), or go over the finer points of the latest episode of The Walking Dead. It’s true that you can tailor your experience of Facebook to some extent: After all, you can choose which pages you like, who you follow, and which groups you’re a member of. But there are some key differences with Reddit: Its algorithm is far less mysterious than Facebook’s, it’s far easier to actually find groups, and the sheer variety, activity, and devotion of the communities you’ll find dwarf Facebook’s offerings. As a quantifiable metric for the supremacy of the site’s popularity, the amount of time the average user spends on Reddit per day is greater than any other social media site in the top 50. Clocking in at just under 15 minutes per user per day, it goes far beyond Facebook’s 10 minutes and 37 seconds and Twitter’s 6-and-a-bit minutes. Considering these other two sites are a notorious time-sink for regular users, that’s an impressive feat.