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Reddit

Connecting Reddit lets Kinn watch the public conversations where people talk about your product and the wider space it lives in. Where Discord shows you your own community, Reddit shows you the broader sentiment — the discussions, comparisons, and complaints happening in places you don't control.

It's the source to add when you want a read on how you're perceived beyond the people who've already joined your own channels.

What it pulls in​

Once connected, Kinn reads public posts and comments from the subreddits you choose to track, including:

  • Top-level posts and their full comment threads
  • Ongoing activity in those subreddits as it happens

It does not read:

  • Private messages or modmail
  • Content in private, restricted, or quarantined subreddits it can't access
  • Anything that isn't publicly visible on Reddit
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Because Reddit is public, there's no bot to invite into a server the way there is with Discord. Instead, you point Kinn at the specific subreddits — and, where supported, the keywords or brand terms — you want it to follow.

How to connect​

  1. From your dashboard, go to Sources → Add source → Reddit.
  2. Authorize Kinn's read-only access to Reddit when prompted.
  3. Specify which subreddits to track. Good starting points are your own community subreddit plus one or two adjacent ones where your audience spends time (for a dev tool, that might be your project's subreddit alongside broader programming or tooling communities).
  4. Wait for the initial sync to finish. Once it shows as synced, you can run your first query.
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Start with a small, focused set of subreddits. A handful of relevant communities gives much cleaner signal than casting a wide net, and you can always add more from the source's settings later.

Permissions​

Kinn requests read-only access to public Reddit content:

  • Read access to posts and comments — so it can ingest the discussions in the subreddits you've chosen.

Kinn does not request permission to post, comment, vote, send messages, or moderate. It only reads what's already public.

What you can now ask​

Once Reddit is connected and synced, try:

  • What are people saying about us on Reddit this week?
  • Has sentiment shifted since our launch?
  • What complaints are coming up most often?
  • Are people comparing us to other tools?
  • What feature requests show up in Reddit discussions?

See Writing good queries for how to get sharper answers, and Example queries for a fuller library grouped by what you're trying to do.