Facebook is off the podium of the most visited sites in the United States. It is now preceded by Reddit, a gigantic forum, still little known in France.

As a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or not, in the United States, Facebook was ejected from the top 3 most visited sites, according to the ranking of Alexa, an American web traffic analysis company owned by Amazon. The first position is occupied by the Google search engine, the second by the YouTube video platform (which belongs to Google). The Reddit site takes over the third one.


Almost unknown in France, Reddit is a forum founded in 2005 by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman. The latter is the current CEO of the company. Reddit has a very special way of working. Users submit links (to a press article or multimedia content such as an image, a gif...) and Internet users vote to bring up the most popular. The comments under each post are also submitted to the users’ vote, which allows the most interesting ones to be highlighted. This filing system inspires Facebook. Some Internet users noticed that a similar function was being tested for comments.


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Sub-sections for each theme

To post on Reddit, you have to choose a subreddit. A sub-section of the forum dedicated to a specific theme. The design of the site has recently been updated but on its old version, the most popular sub-sections were presented at the top: worldnews, videos, funny, gaming, movies and many others. A subreddit France also exists, followed by 193,000 Internet users. It is impossible to estimate how many sub-Redits exist.


Reddit, like many forums and social networks, is regularly accused of being invaded by trolls (people who seek to generate controversy). In April, when publishing its annual report, the forum reported that it had identified 944 suspicious accounts, possibly linked to the IRA (Internet Research Agency), a Russian organization that distributes propaganda on the Internet. But Reddit said that these accounts had not placed any advertising related to the 2016 US elections, as they were able to do on other platforms, including Facebook.

While Reddit overtakes Facebook in the United States, this is not the case worldwide. According to the Alexa ranking, the three most visited sites in the world remain Google, YouTube and Facebook, which also dominate the French ranking. In France, however, Reddit’s popularity is growing. To date, the forum is ranked 14th, ahead of sites such as eBay or Netflix.