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The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers
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The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers

by Amber Atherton
April 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
187 pages
5h 46m
English
Apress
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A. AthertonThe Rise of Virtual Communities https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9297-6_10

10. Alexis Ohanian

Cofounder of Reddit
Amber Atherton1  
(1)
San Francisco, CA, USA
 

Reddit is an online discussion and community platform that ranks, at present, as the eighth most visited website in the world. Founded in 2005 by Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman, and Aaron Swartz, it was envisaged to become “the front page of the Internet.” Users can post content, which is ordered by subject, into “subreddits” or “communities.” Reddit has over 138,000 active communities and more than 400 million monthly users. Posts with greater upvotes are displayed earlier within each subreddit; ...

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