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Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and gen z (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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a change in Google’s search algorithms last year to prioritise helpful content from discussion forums appears to have been a significant driver.

Maybe an opportunity for reddit!

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[–] 9 points 10 months ago

I don't love Reddit but I prefer it to TikTok. So I would say this is slightly good news.

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Reddit can be it's own thing. If you need a discussion on a topic, it has it's own search. If you're searching for an article on something, you now have to wade through the sponsored results, the Reddit posts, the YouTube videos, the tiktok videos...

    Basically, I think people will soon get sick of every Google search leading to a site with that smug Reddit mascot cunt if you ever dare use your VPN, which then contains 20 posts discussing the issue with no answer or solution, before moving to the next, identical Reddit thread result.

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Another contributing factor is the TikTok website just doesn't fucking work half the time and the only support they offer is a misconfigured AI prone to getting stuck in loops.

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    [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I hate to break it to you, but The Guardian is now only a mere shadow of it's former self. The reporting has been going downhill for years and especially in anything tech-related, it's journalism can only be described as utterly clueless. It's been sad to watch.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Old-world journalism in general has relied far too much on outside contractors, especially for technical subjects, who shop their articles around various outlets. It has dragged their reputation down because they no longer have an identity as a collection of like-minded journalists. Instead, it's the same collection among all of the news sources with varying levels of quality, mostly poor because they can't make it as real non-contracted journalists. They don't even report on the same subject all the time, just shifting around to whatever they want to talk about without understanding the subject matter at all.

    Not exactly in this case, because this guy is an in-house "media editor" who has no clue what he's talking about, but generally speaking.

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    • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Who's gonna tell 'em?

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    [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Maybe the author has NEVER been human

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Redditors were never human.

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    • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    It's true that is favoured by the search engines and it has a lot of different communities. But it's impossible that they haven't noticed the AI slop.

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