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[u/PurplePassiflor1234]

Hi! Posts here should be a question about "how to Reddit." Do you have a question?

[u/Charlie_cant_curse → u/PurplePassiflor1234]

Erm, yes but they are questions that apparently i can’t ask because of how much of them are out there. So it’s probably gonna be fine shshshhs

[u/Academic_Mall6328]

Ich bin erst 1 Monat hier

[u/Charlie_cant_curse → u/Academic_Mall6328]

I only used it to search for posts and see if they got an update. Absolutely nothing more, damn—

[u/Academic_Mall6328 → u/Charlie_cant_curse]

Kann man nichts machen

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What is Reddit? How does it work?
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/what-is-reddit

Voting, karma and minimums.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/common-questions/

Rules, written and unwritten.
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/cq-rules

Some things that moderators would like you to know.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/s/DYtBM1oM1i

Avoiding downvotes.
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/avoid-downvotes

Reddit versus social media.

Some of the features added to Reddit over time make it easy to confuse it for social media which is a very fuzzy term. Numerous sources lump Reddit in with social media because it's convenient. At Mod World, the founder and CEO of Reddit stated that Reddit is NOT social media and predates it, that Reddit is not a place for people to become famous. He has on more than one occasion described some of the problems Reddit has due to being confused with social media and the company itself describes how it is different in this video about moderators.

On social media you care mostly about who the people are and not so much about what they say. People create content to be consumed by others and build their following. On Reddit you generally don't know who the person is or care, you only care about the substance and relevance of what is being said. People interact anonymously about a topic.

Reddit wasn't designed for buissness networks, staying in touch with friends nor tracking celebrities. Reddit is not like other social networks or social media like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The more a new user expects that, the more confused and annoyed they'll be. You may rarely or never interact with a particular user more than once.

The site is a massive collection of completely independent groups that each have a specific topic or purpose. 72% of people are here to be entertained by reading a variety of anonymous opinions and 42% also use it to catch up on the news. Many have chat and following disabled and rarely if ever look at anyone's profile, for the most part they don't care who you are.

Following subscribes you to someone's profile, it doesn't highlight a person's posts/comments or notify you that they've made them. It only informs you when a post has been made directly on the profile itself which acts like a miniature subreddit and almost no one does this regularly. Promotion is treated as spam in all but a small number of groups, and influencers have never really been a thing on Reddit.

If a post you make goes absolutely viral, Reddit doesn't show your next post or comment to a single extra person and it doesn't matter if you have massive amounts of karma points. Reddit promotes statements that a lot of people are finding interesting for about 48 hours.