Reddit is where millions of real people gather to talk, ask and debate across 100,000+ communities. From breaking news and footy to cricket, gaming, finance and every hobby in between, someone is already talking about it. Instead of following profiles, you join communities about the things you care about, and your feed follows your interests.
What can you do on Reddit?
On Reddit you read, post, comment and vote on conversations started by people across Australia and around the world. There's room for people who just want to keep up and for people who love jumping into the debate. Students, tradies, parents, gamers, sports fans and the endlessly curious swap stories and advice here every day.
Everything on Reddit happens inside subreddits — What are subreddits?
Subreddits are communities built around a specific topic, each with its own rules and volunteer moderators. A few that are popular with Australians:
- r/AskAnAustralian: ask locals anything, from slang to settling in.
- r/australia: news, culture and everyday chat about life down under.
- r/AusFinance: real talk on super, property, budgeting and saving.
- r/AustralianPolitics: a place to discuss and debate Aussie politics.
- r/AskReddit, r/funny and r/worldnews: global conversations, daily laughs and live news discussion.
What do people use Reddit for? People come to Reddit to:
- Get real answers
Ask for advice on careers, relationships, money or health, and hear from people who have been in the same spot.
- Keep up with the news
Read the latest headlines, then see how people are discussing them as they happen.
- Talk sport
Follow match threads, share hot takes and celebrate with fellow fans.
- Find their people
Join communities about your passions and chat with people who know the topic as well as you do.
- Have a laugh
Memes, funny videos and odd stories for any time of day.
- Learn something new
From cooking to coding, someone is always happy to walk you through it.
Got questions? We've got you
Is Reddit free?
Yes. You can read, post, comment and join communities for free. Reddit Premium is an optional subscription.
How do upvotes and karma work?
Instead of likes and hearts, Reddit runs on upvotes and downvotes. Voting on posts and comments increases or decreases the creator's karma, helping popular and relevant posts rise to the top, while filtering out low-quality or irrelevant posts.
Do I need karma to take part?
Not to get started. Some communities require karma to post or comment, which helps maintain content quality and community standards.
Do I need an account to use Reddit?
Not to read most communities. To post, comment, vote and join communities, just create a free account.
How do I find communities I'm into?
Use search or browse the suggestions in the app. Once you join a few communities, your feed starts showing more of what you like.
Reddit Premium:
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Whether you love films, kittens, science, kittens, politics or kittens, Reddit’s official app puts all this (plus kittens) at your fingertips. With a colourful and intuitive layout, it’s easy to browse and post to “the front page of the Internet” across thousands of subreddits that cater to virtually every area of interest. Search for communities that line up with your hobbies; filter posts by posting time, hotness and more; and get a breakdown of your own Redditing history to see where you reaped all that sweet, sweet karma. (Protip: you can’t go wrong with pictures of—you guessed it—kittens.)
News buffet
relatively absolute
News means new information from the world around us. But to be fair, it should include stories from afar as well as info from our immediate surroundings. Reddit news brings it all together, topical and relevant headlines and links to stories from around the world. I haven't seen any other current example of worldwide news, supplied by eyewitness accounts and mainstream media, that collects and offers news from everywhere for everyone. Keep it coming and thank you for it.
A good app for a great website with some annoyances
Chrisnzkiwi
I’ve been using the app for four years and got most of my needs it works well. Reddit itself is an amazing source of news, creative content, interesting discussion, hindered only by a few toxic communities and trolls. The toxic communities and trolls are easy to avoid or block however.The app has a few quirks. Sharing content onto other social media sites is constrained, with the app forcing a Reddit ‘wrapper’ around the content which means you have to click through to Reddit to fully view the content (I’m specifically frustrated with how sharing content to Tumblr now works). Additionally- messages and notifications are a bit clunky, with recommendations, notifications and messages all using the same mechanism. This is annoying because it’s necessary to open a notification in order to mark it as read, which is seldom something I would need to do since the content of most notifications is clear in the header/summary. I don’t like having to open things in order to get rid of them.Despite these annoying elements this is my most used app, and I love Reddit and the communities that make it what it is.
Terrible video player
Obraik
Recently Reddit updated the app with a new video player and the experience so far has been terrible. Tapping on a video now plays in full screen and swipping on the video either takes you back to the subreddit list OR picks another video from a random subreddit. Swipping away the video should at the very least take you to the comments posted about the video. Instead, you have to tap the video, then tap the comments icon on the right side. When you do this the video will keep looping with sound while you read. To stop it you have to go back into the full screen video and then either pause the video or mute the audio. If you accidentally swipe then you'll lose where you were in the comments.This interface as it currently works should never have gone into production.
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