Reddit's MO is snark and sarcasm. It's hard for me to imagine a scenario where a LLM trained on reddit would be useful for anything serious. How do they propose to seperate fact from fiction?
The main reasons are to get local content, or to avoid SEO spam sites which provide overly verbose listicles or "review" sites that link out to Amazon affiliate links.
Reddit is still one of the few sites left that provide user content openly. FB+Instagram+Twitter are entirely inaccessible if you don't have an account, and a lot of forums do things like only show images to logged in users.
I've found the Reddit experience much worse with recent changes. When you land on Reddit from a Google search comment threads are only 1 level deep with a max of only a few replies shown, so you have to load a new page for each response you want to read. It's one of the worst UX I've seen considering that landing from search is probably the most financially lucrative use patterns Reddit has.
which is really fascinating in the face of TikTok being Googleable. like, it's still not there, but being able to Google for a TikTok but not an Instagram reel is something.
I don’t know if it’s just me but Reddit is probably the most toxic, unfriendly community I’ve been in. Anytime I make a comment, it’s immediately downvoted to oblivion if it doesn’t agree with the hive mind, or is unpopular. And if I ask a simple question, it gets downvoted if it’s perceived as “too stupid” or obvious. Maybe it’s just me though
I am really hoping someone makes an AI version of reddit where each user can easily control and adjust the type of posts and interactions they experience.
Just imagine how great reddit would be if not for the other users, the moderators, the admins, and the CEO.
There's a reason plenty of people append "reddit" to their google searches.