Last Updated on October 10, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
Reddit (reddit.com) is a social media site. Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian, and Aaron Swartz in 2005. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder of the original website Infogami which then merged with Reddit.
ALTERNATIVES
Similar sites to Reddit include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. and Discord.
DESCRIPTION
When I created an account, I had to choose at least a few topics of interest. The homepage consisted of posts that were popular on the website (trending) today related to the few interests I gave when I signed up. The mosts were contextual and had images with the community interacting in text beneath them in the form of comments which would create threads. The first topic on my homepage was related to fantasy baseball. I clicked on it to view the full thread. There were 627 comments and 14 upvotes. Most of the questions were questions or opinions. In the right column, it showed information about the overall fantasy baseball community such as the total number of members, the number of members currently online, and where its community ranks on Reddit by size. 6/18/2024
HISTORY
As of October 2023, reddit.com has 1.9 billion monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates reddit.com was founded on July 18, 2002. The Internet Archive has saved reddit.com 12,782,504 times between July 18, 2002 and December 11, 2023.
Is reddit.com Safe?
Here, I analyzed reddit.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:
Sucuri says reddit.com is a medium security risk.
Sucuri says reddit.com is a medium security risk because it returned a 403 Forbidden status on the URL http://reddit.com/.
Unmask Parasites says reddit.com is clean.
VirusTotal says reddit.com is clean.
URLVoid says reddit.com passed all blocklist engines.
In conclusion, reddit.com is as safe as the average site on the internet; however, it did return a 403 Forbidden status in the Sucuri scan. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: reddit.com
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