How to Use Reddit w/ r/CanadaLeft

People's Media Platform

English - July 08, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MB
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In this episode, I talk to Jordan and Matt, two of the people behind CanadaLeft, a subreddit building a leftist community of Canadian content and stories.

We talked about why they started CanadaLeft, what is Reddit, how to manage a community and why it’s such a useful platform.

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Contents
1:40 - Why launch CanadaLeft
4:00 - The structure of Reddit, why it works
7:32 - Structure of Reddit, managing a community
10:23 - Role of moderators
11:42 - How do you build a Reddit community
13:46 - Keeping community members engaged
16:05 - How to promote your content on Reddit
18:40 - r/Canada
21:20 - Is the left using Reddit properly?
26:22 - Advice for leftist media people when using Reddit