Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Reddit
The 20 closest Online discussion forum alternatives to Reddit, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Reddit? The closest matches are Slashdot, Pikabu and 9GAG. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 9 ms
01 · Entity
About Reddit
Reddit reddit.com
Wikidata: American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Summary by Claude
A social news and discussion website where registered users post links, text, images and videos into topic-based communities called subreddits, and other users vote and comment on them.
- Who it’s for
- General internet users
- Business model
- Advertising and premium subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Reddit’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Reddit
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Reddit, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read reddit.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.932 - 02
Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
Very close cos 0.931 - 03
9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
Very close cos 0.926 - 04
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close cos 0.923 - 05
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.920 - 06
American question-and-answer website
Very close cos 0.917 - 07
Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.
Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!
Very close cos 0.919 - 08
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close cos 0.915 - 09
Korean language website in Paraguay
Very close cos 0.915 - 10
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close cos 0.915 - 11
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close cos 0.912 - 12
Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
Very close cos 0.913 - 13
CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news
Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!
Very close cos 0.913 - 14
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close cos 0.913 - 15
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국내 최대 인터넷 커뮤니티 포털이자 인터넷 트렌드의 중심, 디시인사이드입니다. 실시간 베스트 등의 갤러리 커뮤니티 서비스를 제공합니다.
Very close cos 0.911 - 16
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.913 - 17
American news publication
Very close cos 0.912 - 18
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close cos 0.911 - 19
Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun
ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ
Very close cos 0.909 - 20
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.909
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to reddit.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Reddit uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Reddit is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=6b98ba3dd087405399bbf45b6cbdcd37
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=9bd70dd1884421b47f596fea301e14838c9825cdba5b20999…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms71041902
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1029.awsdns-00.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=qC3rSSKrh10DoMI7
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=vBaV6PXyyu4OAPLiQFbxFMCboSTjoR/qxKJ2Olp…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=6ba0c5a9-5a5e-41f8-a7c8-8b4c6e35c10c
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=QO4VY1PRzsG-MxiQn3j0kxd_ZaFjcTk6MWBfKru0_5I
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Reddit adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on reddit.com 13/20
- GlobalSign · not on reddit.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on reddit.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on reddit.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on reddit.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on reddit.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on reddit.com 6/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- OpenAI · not on reddit.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on reddit.com 5/20
- Adobe · not on reddit.com 5/20
- Fastly · not on reddit.com 5/20