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View submission: How to keep your Reddit account safe
They shouldn't be able to. Your password becomes the hash key for whatever algorithm they run. So you enter it in, its gets turned into a hashed key then that value is what's stored. When you log in the hash you produce is checked against the one that's stored for a match.
Key word is shouldn't. There are a few ways to turn those values into something usable some of the time. But Reddit itself should never see anything besides the output of your hashed password.
There's nothing here!