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If you spend any time at all online, you’ve probably heard of Reddit. Branding itself as “the front page of the internet” Reddit is a hugely popular site. Yet, many musicians fail to make proper use of it. In this blog, we’ll learn all about how Reddit can help further your career as a musician.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While “the front page of the internet” is certainly a bold claim, in Reddit’s case, there is quite a lot to substantiate it. Reddit is one of the most visited websites in the world, consistently ranking among the top sites globally. Whilst Facebook (The ultimate guide to Facebook for musicians<\/strong><\/a>) and Twitter (our musician’s guide to X (Twitter)<\/strong><\/a>) are arguably more ubiquitous, Reddit is certainly one of the big players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Reddit?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reddit can essentially be summarised as a huge collection of forums, covering every subject imaginable. Each one of these forums is called a “subreddit”. Jake Widman of Digital Trends<\/a> explains it thus;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name of a subreddit begins with \/r\/, which is part of the URL that Reddit uses. For example, \/r\/nba<\/a> is a subreddit where people talk about the National Basketball Association, while \/r\/boardgames<\/a> is a subreddit for people to discuss board games. Those are straightforward subreddits, but they can get weird, such as \/r\/birdswitharms<\/a>, a subreddit devoted to pictures of birds\u2026with arms.<\/p>Jake Widman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Subreddits can then be “upvoted” or “downvoted” either increasing or decreasing their visibility to other users, with a similar system in place for users’ comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The front page of Reddit will show you various posts that are currently trending on the site and gives visitors the option to filter what they are seeing via several different options. You then have the option to search through Reddit for various subjects of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once you have created an account, you can then create your own subreddits. However, they must meet some basic criteria. IE. Your account must be at least 30 days old and relatively active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar to Wikipedia, Reddit relies on teams of volunteer moderators to police each subreddit and monitor the content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above them, you have the admins. They are direct employees of Reddit, able to ban subreddits as well as discipline users and moderators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reddit accounts operate a “Karma” policy, and every account has a “Karma Number” attached to it. It’s a little mysterious as to how this number is calculated, but good and positive use of the site seems to be key.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reddit has something of its own language. This usually takes the form of initialisms and abbreviations, like OP (original post) or TIL (today I learned).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can learn more about Reddit on their about page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reddit for musicians<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reddit can be beneficial to musicians in several different ways. Broadly speaking though, they usually break down into two different categories \u2013 education and promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education allows you to make use of other people’s experiences on Reddit, and learn more about your craft, instrument or industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using Reddit for promotion will generally mean using Reddit as a vehicle to promote yourself, your services or your music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step on your journey as a musician on Reddit should be to head to the music subreddit \u2013 \/r\/Music\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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