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Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. It is operated by Reddit, Inc., based in San Francisco, California.

"The front page of the internet."

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  • While the political ideology is predominantly liberal, there are countless communities for conservatives, libertarians, anarchists, socialists, etc. Despite the overrepresentation of male users, female users have a wide variety of communities to join, including ones for women's rights, motherhood, parenting, etc. This pattern repeats, resulting in a site that can cater to almost any political ideology, age, gender, and hobby.

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  • A campaign staffer took a photo of the president, and [Teddy] Goff posted it on Reddit along with the headline "I am Barack Obama, President of the United States—AMA." … Obama dug in. He typed straight into Reddit, "Hey everybody—this is barack. Just finished a great rally in Charlottesville, and am looking forward to your questions." … The questions for Obama, simultaneously, were building up at an accelerating rate. Within ten minutes, there were 278 comments. By 4:15, before Obama had even answered just one question from users, Reddit's servers were sputtering.
  • Before the turn of 2018, r/The_Donald had reached half a million subscribers. Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign's digital director, had claimed social media was the reason "we won this thing." He wrote on Reddit that "members here provided considerable growth and reach to our campaign." The_Donald again celebrated Trump's win with a thread cataloging its greatest hits of viral imagery and boasted, "Remember when we memed a man into the White House?"

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  • In March 2007, the first subreddit dedicated to a political figure—r/obama—was created. … Initially, posts in r/obama linked to mainstream news outlet's coverage of Obama, some of which was critical or at least skeptical of the candidate. … By the end of summer 2008, r/obama more closely resembles the kind of candidate advocacy subreddit that became a recurring Reddit motif (e.g., r/Sanders4President, r/The_Donald, r/MurderedByAOC). By this time, the subreddit featured more self-posts from professed Republicans who were ready to vote for Obama and motivational posts that encourage people to donate to the campaign, and post titles took on the partisan, affect-laden style pioneered by The Huffington Post, a popular blog at the time.
    • Elliot T. Panek: Understanding Reddit, ch. 2: "The Evolutions of Reddit". Routledge (2022). ISBN: 978-1-003-15080-0.
  • Political movement subreddits tend to be more active, particularly during the initial phase of excitement over a candidate. As then-US-presidential-candidate Donald Trump gained momentum in April of 2016, roughly 62% of r/The_Donald's 90,000 subscribers commented on the subreddit; by early 2019, after Trump had been elected President, 7% of subscribers were commenting. In mid-2015, 20% of SandersForPresident's 62,000 subscribers were commenting, rising to 32% by March 2016 before dipping to 13% by July of 2016.
    • Elliot T. Panek: Understanding Reddit, ch. 6: "Reddit as Community". Routledge (2022). ISBN: 978-1-003-15080-0.
  • When Obama first ran for president in 2008, he knew the impact the internet and social media sites, such as Reddit, Facebook, and YouTube, could have on the race. By the time of his Reddit appearance in 2012, the president had mastered the technology, posting nearly four times as much content as Romney and, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, "was active in nearly twice as many platforms."
    • John Perritano: Reddit, "Introduction: A President Goes Online". Mason Crest (2018). ISBN: 1-4222-4063-0.

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  • Obama was re-elected for his second term in November 2012, defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2013. … This AMA was done while President Barack Obama was running for his second term. When asked for his opinion on the experience of the Reddit AMA, he gave it an enthusiastic "not bad." Presidential seal of approval achieved!

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  • Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done in one weekend. (Disclosure: We used my web.py library.) The others knew Lisp (they wrote their whole site in it) and they knew Python (they rewrote their whole site in it) and yet they decided liked Python better for this project. The Python version had less code that ran faster and was far easier to read and maintain.

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  1. ↑ a b u/PresidentObama: "I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA" (archived), r/IAmA (2012-08-29).

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