Reddit is a large community made up of thousands of smaller communities. These smaller, sub-communities within Reddit are also known as "subreddits" and are created and moderated by redditors like you.
There’s a community on Reddit for just about everything you could imagine, and several ways to find communities about the things you’re interested in or curious about.
- If you already know what you’re looking for, using the search bar will be the most direct.
- To browse communities when you’re not sure what you’re looking for, r/findareddit, r/newreddits, r/popular, and r/all are other good places to start.
- If you’re on our app and want to explore relevant and local communities, you might be interested in the Communities tab. This page suggests communities you’re likely to enjoy based on your existing favorite communities, local trends, and popular communities in topics of your interest. To find the Communities tab, tap the Communities icon
at the bottom of the app.
If you find a community you like, join it so that its posts will show up in your home feed. Simply tap or click the Join button, and you’ll begin to see any new posts from that community in your feed. You can join as many communities as you want. However, on any given visit, your home feed will only show posts from around 250 communities and will refresh every 30 minutes.
To see the communities you’ve joined is slightly different based on what platform you’re on:
On the left side panel on Reddit.com, scroll down to the Communities section to see the communities that you've joined. You’ll see up to 250 of the communities you follow there. To see all of the communities you’ve joined, you’ll need to head over to old Reddit.
) in the upper left-hand corner of your home screen. From here you’ll see a list of all of the communities you’ve joined.
If you have more questions that aren’t covered in these FAQs, check out r/help. Someone may have had the same question, or you can ask a new one and a Reddit administrator or one of your fellow redditors will help you out.
