20 years later, if you want to find something on the Internet you are looking for it in Reddit

Reddit It started as a discussion forum and became a social network, but what nobody imagined is that 20 years after its creation what many do It is not so much to participate in Reddit and Search in it (Oa through it).

Its evolution is a sign of the times. Google’s search engine is broken And search engines want to take over, but they are still somewhat green. And among the deficiencies of one and others, Reddit has become that place where to look for answers.

And he has done it for a fundamental aspect. One of which Steve Huffman spoke, his co -founder and current CEO, who celebrated that twentieth anniversary In a post in Reddit. As he explained, “Reddit works because he is human”. It is a slightly strange way to qualify at a social service or network like yours, but it is true: in the face of the flood of the contents of other platforms, Reddit forums continue to be a wonderful chaos of human texts.

Users share, think and reflect there of everything imaginable, and that has become an absolute treasure in an internet full of bots and that endangers among other things by the fearsome “Ai Slop”.

Reddit itself has recognized how its role has evolved. Until recently, their slogan, the phrase they identified with, was “The Front Page Of The Internet“(” The Internet cover “) A”Dive Into Anything“(” Immerse yourself in anything “).

Internet has changed and now that cover is a personalized. And if there is something you can customize today on the Internet is Reddit: by “immersed” In any of its subnetdits And join them, your own internet cover is formed. One with the themes, forums and subrreddits that most attract your attention.

That does not prevent this social network from adapting to the new times. Reddit is wonderful for its diversitybut little by little it integrates advantages provided by artificial intelligence.

Thus, it is possible to continue surprising with Bizarros and spectacular subrreditslike this one who speaks of Airport Moquetasthis one that does so photos where the letter g appears Or, already put, this with Subrredits lists where that endless variety is demonstrated. And in all of them, the commendable work not only of users, but of the moderators.

But we also found, as Huffman pointed out, that integration of AI through Reddit Answers. He himself clarified the mission of this project:

“Facilitate access to the seemingly infinite human knowledge of Reddit. Most Reddit conversations occur in posts of less than a day old. Reddit Answers unlocks the other 20 years. Reddit Answers does not replace conversations, but is a faster path to them.”

This colossal diversity and that adaptation to the new times maintaining the absolute focus on human conversation has gradually made Reddit become One of the few bastions that have weighed from the primal internet Together with sites like Slashdot either Hacker News. A more anarchic and more chaotic, less predictable, less conquered by the algorithm. That gives it a spectacular value, and the big ones know more and more.

To tell Google herself, which has ended up paying her A little fortune to Reddit to train his artificial intelligence models. It was the same thing that did some time before OpenAiand in both cases the reason was clear: the Reddit content has a very special value for being eminently human.

That value is such that those who seek on Google take advantage of it. It is very normal since when we look for opinions on any subject, we use Google search engine But adding as a “Reddit” coletilla so that results belonging to said platform appear.

It is an excellent sign for Reddit’s health, no doubt. Here the threat is that search engines end up taking advantage of all that knowledge without the return in traffic for the social network –as for the media and creators-. It is likely that this happens, but here Reddit will continue to have the same value with which it was created and that now is its spearhead.

Human conversations.

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