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| March 2025 |
Digg
Justin Mezzell was appointed as the new CEO of Digg, signaling a strategic leadership change for the platform.
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| March 2025 |
Digg
Digg announced a new strategic direction, focusing primarily on mobile users and implementing a content moderation approach that combines AI tools with human oversight.
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| 2025 |
Digg
Digg was acquired by Money Group for an undisclosed amount, marking another transition in the company's ownership.
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| March 7 2025 | The Verge reported that Reddit's automatic moderation tool was incorrectly flagging the word 'Luigi' as 'potentially violent', including in unrelated contexts, causing issues for moderators across subreddits. |
| March 5 2025 |
Digg
Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian announce their purchase of Digg, with plans to revive the platform and restore its original community-driven spirit.
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| March 5 2025 | Reddit announced they will be issuing warnings to users who upvote 'violent content' and may consider taking additional actions against such users. |
| February 3 2025 |
Controversial Reddit communities
r/WhitePeopleTwitter was temporarily banned for 72 hours by Reddit site administrators due to a prevalence of violent content, following a screenshot of threatening comments about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.
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| January 2025 | Over 100 Reddit communities banned users from posting links from X social media site in response to Elon Musk's controversial arm gesture, which critics claimed resembled a Nazi salute. |
| December 2024 | Reddit announces Reddit Answers, an AI search tool that summarizes conversations in response to user questions. |
| September 2024 | The Federal Trade Commission released a comprehensive report examining data collection practices of 9 companies, including Reddit, highlighting potential risks to user privacy and personal safety through data collection methods affecting individuals' vulnerability to identity theft, stalking, discrimination, and potential emotional and mental health impacts. |
| May 24 2024 | Reddit introduced dedicated platform features for hosting AMAs, enabling hosts to schedule and promote events, and allowing participants to RSVP. |
| May 16 2024 | Reddit reaches a deal with OpenAI to provide API access for AI model training, while receiving AI tools for moderators and users. |
| May 15 2024 | Reddit removed the dedicated login flow from the old.reddit.com domain, though site admins stated they have no plans to remove the old domain entirely. |
| March 21 2024 | Reddit debuted on the stock market with the ticker symbol RDDT, with a market cap of $10 billion. |
| March 20 2024 | Reddit goes public on the New York Stock Exchange, opening at $34 per share with a $6.4 billion valuation and closing at $50.44, reaching a market cap of $9.5 billion. |
| 2023 |
Controversial Reddit communities
NPR published an article suggesting that Redditors should exercise caution before accepting user-created unsourced content as fact.
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| 2023 | Reddit downsized from an office in the Mid-Market neighborhood to an office in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco. |
| November 2023 | Reddit began a comprehensive rebrand, including a new logo, typeface, brand colors, and an updated mascot Snoo, in preparation for a potential 2024 IPO. |
| October 17 2023 | Reddit announced the winding down of Moons cryptocurrency by November 8, causing a significant crash in its value of over 90%. |
| July 20 2023 | Reddit launched the third iteration of r/place, which was heavily protested by users and developers due to the ongoing API controversy and CEO Steve Huffman's decision to make third-party app development prohibitively expensive. |
| June 12 2023 | Reddit moderators initiated a protest by making their communities private or restricting posting, in response to the API pricing changes. The protest was initially planned to last until June 14. |
| May 2023 | Reddit launched Moons, a site-specific cryptocurrency for the platform. |
| May 31 2023 | Apollo developer Christian Selig announced that Reddit's new API pricing would force him to cease development of the Apollo app, sparking community outcry. |
| April 2023 | Reddit announced plans to charge large fees for its API, which had been free since 2008, forcing multiple third-party applications to shut down and threatening accessibility applications and moderation tools. |
| April 1 2023 | Reddit conducted another iteration of the r/place collaborative pixel art experiment, continuing their annual tradition of interactive April Fools' Day events. |
| 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
FDS was featured in a Guardian article discussing the community's perspective and approach to dating, with a podcast co-host providing commentary on the group's underlying philosophy.
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| 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
A study revealed an abundance of unsourced and potentially harmful medical advice on Reddit, specifically regarding medical treatments for urinary tract infections.
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| 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
The hacker group Anonymous hacked a server hosting Chinese government websites and uploaded a meme mocking r/GenZedong on a government site promoting tourism in China.
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| November 15 2022 | RPAN was officially discontinued. |
| August 18 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
The r/PiratedGames subreddit was restored following an appeal from its moderators, one day after its initial ban.
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| August 17 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Reddit banned the r/PiratedGames subreddit, which had over 300,000 subscribers, due to excessive DMCA copyright infringement claims, despite the subreddit's explicit prohibition on sharing pirated content.
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| July 7 2022 | Announced blockchain-backed Collectible Avatars, customizable NFT-like avatars created by independent artists. |
| June 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Reddit banned the TumblrInAction (TiA) subreddit for promoting hate, at a time when the community had over 470,000 members.
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| April 2022 |
Tal Canal
Tal Canal social networking site was officially launched by its creators.
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| April 1 2022 | Reddit repeated the r/place collaborative pixel art experiment, revisiting the successful 2017 April Fools' Day event. |
| March 23 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Reddit banned the r/Chodi subreddit for promoting hate speech, which had over 90,000 subscribers known for spreading Islamophobic, anti-Christian, homophobic, and misogynistic content. Following the ban, the subreddit's users migrated to Telegram.
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| March 23 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
The r/GenZedong subreddit was quarantined by Reddit for spreading disinformation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the time of quarantine, the subreddit had over 57,000 subscribers.
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| March 2 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Reddit administrators banned the ChongLangTV subreddit, which had over 53,000 subscribers, for 'exposing privacy of others'. The subreddit was known for extreme anti-Chinese sentiment.
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| March 1 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Reddit administrators quarantined r/Russia subreddit for spreading disinformation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including false claims about Ukrainian military, leadership, and conflict dynamics. At the time of quarantine, the subreddit had over 265,000 subscribers.
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| January 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
A longtime r/antiwork moderator was interviewed on Fox News, which led to significant criticism from subreddit members and resulted in the moderator being asked to give up their moderation duties.
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| January 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
The subreddit reached over 1.7 million subscribers.
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| January 26 2022 |
Controversial Reddit communities
r/antiwork became the subreddit with the highest traffic increase among non-default front page subreddits.
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| 2021 |
Controversial Reddit communities
United States Senate sent a letter to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman expressing concern about the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on the platform.
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| 2021 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Reddit initially defended allowing conversations that 'question or disagree with popular consensus' about COVID-19, but ultimately banned the r/NoNewNormal subreddit after moderator protests, citing community interference rather than misinformation.
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| 2021 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Slate published an article examining controversial discussions within r/aznidentity and AsianMasculinity subreddits, highlighting claims about anti-Asian racism and racial tensions.
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| December 2021 |
Controversial Reddit communities
Slate published an article characterizing TumblrInAction as a 'breeding ground for online hate' with links to Gamergate and online harassment tactics.
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| December 2021 |
Controversial Reddit communities
The subscriber count grew to 1.4 million members.
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| December 2021 | Reddit reportedly filed for an IPO with a valuation of $15 billion. |
| December 2021 | Launched Reddit Recap, a feature providing users with annual platform engagement statistics. |
| November 2021 |
Controversial Reddit communities
The subreddit's subscriber count exceeded one million members.
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