Reddit is a rating and discussion site. Links to social posts are aggregated, rated and discussed. Rating is done by members of the site who either vote up or down on a news item. A community can be formed by a user to discuss a particular topic or issue.

Premium membership is termed as Reddit Gold and comes with options to block ads, change themes, create custom avatars, highlighting of new comments since the last view by the subscriber, memory feature to ensure links are not share twice and subreddits that can only be accessed by other reddit gold subscribers. Gold also delivers the feature of categorization of saved posts and comments.