CMX Summit is the world's largest gathering of those who are ready to harness the power of collaboration and community in the digital age. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, explains why pseudonymity is so powerful and what Reddit is doing to drive success in its communities.

1. We Are What We Do,
Not What Our Profile
Says We Are
Alexis Ohanian
u/kn0thing

2. Can community scale? (Yes)
How?
Alexis Ohanian
u/kn0thing

3. 250M uniques/mo.
8B pageviews/mo.
12 min. per session
53% men
47% women
87% under 35

4. 1/3
of USA

5. Over 40,000
active communities

6. Your Identity Is
Not Your Profile

10. Pseudonymity
Lets You Be
Yourselves

12. Pseudonymity
Can Be the Basis
of Real Communities

14. Pseudonymous
Communities Can
Spur Real Change

16. Changing culture &
creating a social contract

18. Community
Trust
&
Safety

19. 2xed community team,
including new Director &
social anthropologist who is
a specialist in online
communities.

21. Closed 170,000 tickets in
the last 120 days, reduced
our average time for first
response from 56 hours to
6 hours.

24. 90%
reduced

26. Harassment Reports dropped 30%

27. Where do we go from here?

31. Thank you!
u/kn0thing