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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

How to use Reddit, a 5 step etiquette guide to the UK’s fastest growing social media platform

If you’re looking for a trendy new alternative to X but Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads just aren’t hitting the spot, don’t fret. The heir to the throne may have been in front of us the entire time.

According to Ofcom, Reddit is now the fastest growing social media platform in the UK, overtaking X and LinkedIn to become the fifth highest-reaching social media service among adults. Statistics from this May show that Reddit was visited by 22.9 million UK adults in May this year, compared with 22.1 million visiting X.

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