Reddit community grew stronger than ever in 2022

Reddit community grew stronger than ever in 2022

With 100,000 active communities and 430 million posts, Reddit boosted its reach in 2022.

‘r/place’ launched a challenge to create a collaborative digital artwork, resulting in a real battle between streamers from different countries. © r/place / Reddit.
PARIS:
The end of the year is approaching and social media sites are taking stock of the past 12 months.

After Spotify, Apple and TikTok, Reddit unveiled the figures that defined 2022 on its platform. And one thing is clear, the Reddit community has not stopped growing.

Reddit is on a roll. The community platform grew and won over new users in 2022.

Looking back on the year, Reddit revealed that it now counts more than 100,000 active communities worldwide and that more than 430 million posts were created in 2022, a 14% growth over 2021.

Reddit also saw engagement increase with over 2.5 billion comments in 2022 by Nov 20. Again, this was an increase over the previous year, this time by 7%; plus the site counted more than 24 billion upvotes, Reddit’s version of a “like,” which helps move a post up on the platform.

And when it came to specifics, the platform revealed that the post “Full screenshot of r/place 2022” in the subreddit “r/place” was the most popular publication with 434,300 upvotes.

Next came the post “In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia ‘in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded'” in the subreddit”r/interestingasfuck” with a total of 403,500 upvotes, followed by, in “r/mademesmile,” “he finally got his acorn 

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