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Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.

Overview

Reddit is a network of communities where content is ranked by readers themselves through upvotes and downvotes. The unit here is not the author but the community: rules, topics and permitted formats are set by each one separately, on top of the platform's general rules. For working with an audience this means a post's success is decided not by subscribers but by whether a particular community accepted it.

The Reddit site is closed to robots entirely. The robots.txt of www.reddit.com contains User-agent: * Disallow: /, and the help host support.reddithelp.com answers 403 to any article address. Three places remain open: the company site redditinc.com with its policies, the advertising API documentation at ads-api.reddit.com/docs, and the page www.reddit.com/dev/api describing the interface.

Who is here

Reddit publishes no audience figures — not on the company home page, not on the press page.

There is one useful indirect sign of international reach: the policy pages exist in dozens of language versions at predictable addresses of the form /<locale>/policies/<document> — ar, bg-bg, bn and others. A platform that translates its legal documents into dozens of languages expects an audience in those languages. Reddit audience numbers that circulate in reviews belong not to the platform but to third-party reviewers.

Getting started

The age threshold is set by a double condition: at least 13 and at least the minimum age required by the laws of the user's country. For adult material — at least 18. A single number is not an answer here: in a country with a threshold of 16, 16 applies.

What you can publish

From Reddit's general rules one substantive restriction is known: the platform has no separate prohibition on AI-made content. The nearest thing is rule 5 on authenticity: «Be authentic. You don't have to use your real name, but do not intentionally mislead others or impersonate an individual or entity in a deceptive manner», and rule 2 on content manipulation. There is no requirement to label AI content: the words «AI», «artificial intelligence», «deepfake», «synthetic» do not appear in the text of the eight rules. Nor is there a penalty for failing to label — because there is no obligation to label.

How to grow

Reddit names one ranking signal outright, and not in the help centre but on its own news site: «Every user on Reddit can upvote or downvote content, which directly affects how visible that content becomes». That is, a post's visibility depends directly on readers' votes.

The same source speaks about fighting vote manipulation: «Revoking nearly 2M inauthentic votes per day over the last three months».

There is no direct promise to reduce reach for violations on the available pages. Two mechanisms are named: removal, and being downvoted by readers — «Low-quality or manipulative content is quickly downvoted by users, reducing its visibility». Of its own work the platform writes: «Our goal is simple: limit the impact of bad actors and exposure to their content».

Help articles about recommendations — «Reddit's Approach to Content Recommendations» and «What are home feed recommendations?» — exist: their addresses are visible in search results.

There are no tags in the usual sense on Reddit — there are flairs and communities.

The road to monetisation

Reddit does have payout programmes: Earnings Programs, where selected authors receive money for particular kinds of activity subject to conditions. The policy revision is dated 24 September 2024, a date the platform itself gives.

Three conditions from that policy are worth knowing before you start, not after.

Allowed to publish does not mean allowed to earn. Certain topics are excluded from payouts even where such content is permitted on the platform: «certain topics are ineligible from receiving monetary payouts even if the content is otherwise allowed». Which topics is in the policy itself; check before choosing a niche.

Accrued does not mean received. If eligibility is lost, payouts are suspended or ended, and this may affect amounts already accrued but not yet paid.

There are no rules about earning from AI content. The Earn Policy was read in full: the words «artificial intelligence» and «AI-generated» do not appear. That is the absence of a rule, not permission and not prohibition.

Tools and automation

The API documentation is open and readable: the page www.reddit.com/dev/api is served statically, around a hundred thousand characters on a single page.

There is a condition here worth more than everything else in this section: commercial use requires a separate agreement. Verbatim: «If you are interested in using the Data APIs for commercial purposes, research in excess of rate limits, or for any use that is not expressly permitted under the Data API Terms, then you will need to enter into a separate agreement with Reddit».

That is, Reddit's free programmatic access does not assume commercial application by default. A service offering you auto-posting to Reddit needs that agreement — or it works without one.

The open documentation sets no official request-rate limit; figures such as «60 requests per minute» come from third-party articles, not from the platform.

Limits and rules

Additional terms override the general ones. At Reddit this is arranged by service: paid services and digital goods fall under «Reddit Econ Terms», programmatic access under «Reddit Developer Terms», participation in payout programmes under «Earn Terms». The list of documents also includes separate «Jurisdiction Specific Terms» — country conditions are moved into their own document. The general user agreement is not the last word here.

Who it suits

Reddit suits someone ready to work inside other people's rules: each community has its own, and the platform's general rules do not override them. It suits poorly anyone who needs predictability: a post's visibility is decided by readers' votes, not by subscription to an author.

Separately, for anyone planning automation: commercial use of programmatic access requires a separate agreement with Reddit, and that is worth establishing before choosing a service, not after.

There is no advice here on whether to go to Reddit, and there will not be: we show the conditions, the choice is yours.

Tools for this platform

The list is built from the tools' own facts: every line is a tool's statement that it supports the platform, with the source named. A tool missing from the list only means we have no such statement.

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Verified data

The checked data this deep dive rests on.

Who's here

Average daily unique audience (DAUq) in the U.S. — 52.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 (121.4 million globally), up 9% year over year. Weekly audience (WAUq) in the U.S. — 193.4 million for the same quarter. Data from Reddit's report on the results of the fourth quarter and all of 2025, filed with the SEC together with Form 8-K.

the company's investor presentation. Verbatim: «DAUq: Global 121.4 101.7 19 % DAUq: U.S. 52.5 48.0 9 % DAUq: International 68.9 53.7 28 %»

source, checked 2026-08-17

International average daily audience (DAUq outside the U.S.) — 68.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, up 28% year over year; roughly 57% of redditors in that quarter visited the platform from outside the U.S. From Reddit's Form 10-K annual report for 2025.

the company's annual report. Verbatim: «We have captured increased international momentum, with an average of 68.9 million international DAUq for the three months ended December 31, 2025, representing 28% growth year over year.»

source, checked 2026-08-17

International weekly unique audience (WAUq outside the U.S.) — 278.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, up 34% year over year (471.6 million globally, 193.4 million in the U.S.). The report on the results of the fourth quarter and 2025, filed with the SEC.

the company's investor presentation. Verbatim: «WAUq: Global 471.6 379.4 24 % WAUq: U.S. 193.4 172.2 12 % WAUq: International 278.2 207.2 34 %»

source, checked 2026-08-17

Content

There is no separate ban on AI content. The closest is rule 5: "Be authentic. You don’t have to use your real name, but do not intentionally mislead others or impersonate an individual or entity in a deceptive manner"; and rule 2 about "content manipulation"

The detailed page of the rule about impersonating someone else (support.reddithelp.com/hc/articles/41180423371156) is closed by Cloudflare (HTTP 403), so it was not possible to check whether it mentions deepfakes. The Reddit rules were read in full at redditinc.com/policies/reddit-rules (the robots.txt of this domain allows the /policies section to everyone). The detailed explanations of the rules are at support.reddithelp.com — there is Cloudflare protection there, HTTP 403 and "Just a moment... Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue"; www.reddit.com is closed by the rule "User-agent: * / Disallow: /". It must not be bypassed. Note also that WebFetch is not allowed onto redditinc.com ("Claude Code is unable to fetch from redditinc.com"), the page was obtained by an ordinary GET.

source, checked 2026-08-04

Promotion

It was not possible to read the help centre articles about ranking. On its own open news site the platform names one signal directly: "Every user on Reddit can upvote or downvote content, which directly affects how visible that content becomes." On the artificial boosting of votes: "Revoking nearly 2M inauthentic votes per day over the last three months" · the source is dated 2026-07-06

the robots.txt of www.reddit.com contains "User-agent: * Disallow: /" — the whole site is closed to all robots. The robots.txt of support.reddithelp.com permits crawling, but the server returns 403 with the splash page "Just a moment..." (protection from robots, it must not be circumvented): checked both with an ordinary request and through WebFetch. Only the platform's own news section redditinc.com is open and was read. The post is of 6 July 2026

source, checked 2026-08-05

Judging by the addresses in search results, the platform has the help centre articles "Reddit’s Approach to Content Recommendations" (https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/23511859482388-Reddit-s-Approach-to-Content-Recommendations) and "What are home feed recommendations?" (https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402284777364-What-are-home-feed-recommendations). Both return 403 and have not been read, so their content is not recorded here

the robots.txt of www.reddit.com contains "User-agent: * Disallow: /" — the whole site is closed to all robots. The robots.txt of support.reddithelp.com permits crawling, but the server returns 403 with the splash page "Just a moment..." (protection from robots, it must not be circumvented): checked both with an ordinary request and through WebFetch. Only the platform's own news section redditinc.com is open and was read. The existence of the pages is confirmed only by the addresses, the content has not been checked

source, checked 2026-08-05

There is no direct promise to reduce distribution for violations on the accessible pages; removal and downvoting by readers are named, not a reduction. Word for word: "Low-quality or manipulative content is quickly downvoted by users, reducing its visibility." On its own work: "Our goal is simple: limit the impact of bad actors and exposure to their content. We don’t wait for content to reach the community to decide if it’s harmful"; "Blocking 23 million spam views per day before they ever reach a human user"

the robots.txt of www.reddit.com contains "User-agent: * Disallow: /" — the whole site is closed to all robots. The robots.txt of support.reddithelp.com permits crawling, but the server returns 403 with the splash page "Just a moment..." (protection from robots, it must not be circumvented): checked both with an ordinary request and through WebFetch. Only the platform's own news section redditinc.com is open and was read. The reduction of visibility is described as a consequence of readers' votes, not as a measure of the platform

source, checked 2026-08-05

How the money works here

there are payout programmes (Earnings Programs): selected authors receive money for particular kinds of activity provided the conditions are met. Policy revision of 24 September 2024

The revision date is stated by the platform itself

source, checked 2026-07-28

certain TOPICS are excluded from payouts even where such content is allowed on the platform: «certain topics are ineligible from receiving monetary payouts even if the content is otherwise allowed»

Allowed to publish ≠ allowed to earn. A separate kind of restriction

source, checked 2026-07-28

if eligibility is lost, payouts are suspended or stopped, and this can affect amounts ALREADY ACCRUED but not yet paid out

A risk for the author: what has been earned is not guaranteed until it is paid

source, checked 2026-07-28

Restrictions

COMMERCIAL use requires a separate agreement: «If you are interested in using the Data APIs for commercial purposes, research in excess of rate limits, or for any use that is not expressly permitted under the Data API Terms, then you will need to enter into a separate agreement with Reddit»

source, checked 2026-07-28

the age threshold is set as a double condition: at least 13 years old AND at least the minimum age required by the laws of the user's country; for adult material — at least 18

The same double construction as WeChat's: a single number is not an answer

source, checked 2026-07-28

the additional terms of individual services OVERRIDE the general ones where they differ: paid services and digital goods are governed by the «Reddit Econ Terms», programmatic access by the «Reddit Developer Terms», and participation in payout programmes by the «Earn Terms». The platform's list of documents also includes separate «Jurisdiction Specific Terms»

The arrangement is the same as WeChat's: the general rules are not the last word. The difference is that here the sections are by SERVICE, with the country-specific ones moved into a separate document

source, checked 2026-07-28

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