What makes Reddit the introvert’s favourite social platform?

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There is a lot of ‘social’ in social media. Most iterations of it, more often than not, are an extrovert’s domain.

There is the showboating of daily living that is Instagram, the image-centric communication of Snapchat, and the ever-growing collective of virtual friends that is the beating heart of Facebook (apart from sharing photos from family trips, of course). Twitter, once the refuge of the person interested in discourse over display, is now X—a muddled melange of ideas and a shadow of its former self. But amidst every other form that glorifies the banal exhibitionist, there has been Reddit—the quiet social media MVP that has stayed the course for the introvert.

What makes this platform a fitting medium for the introvert is how it offers social engagement without demanding it of one. Facebook reminds you it’s been a while since you posted a story, Instagram pushes you to turn that story into a reel, LinkedIn asks to display your most recent accomplishment; each needs you to engage constantly, to create daily. Mihika K.

doesn’t actually have other social media at all. “I’ve aged out of Facebook, and I hate the comparison contest that Instagram has become. I liked Twitter, but that changed when Elon Musk bought it," she laughs.

Reddit escaped her cutbacks because “it lets you be. And, when you want, you can quietly make a friend." The platform, whether intentionally or not, seems built to cater to the introvert’s desire for community—without the exertion of social mores. It is anonymous, accessible, and has a subReddit for just about any subject under the sun.