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>>robbie+(OP)
Reddit is getting destroyed by tiktok for casual news/random videos etc.

I was a huge reddit user over the years, but now I only go there for a handful of very specific subreddits. That's really it's only use anymore. It's great for that, but they are probably seeing massive decline in usage.

And the moment they basically kill 3rd party reddit apps is the day I barely touch it again.

>>eatsyo+Vp
I can't really agree. The curation on reddit just far, far better outside of the super generic frontpage subreddits. Tik tok is 99% garbage content.

>>alfalf+yt
My experience is the opposite. TikTok curation is incredibly efficient at honing in on the content niches that appeal to you. My TikTok feed feels very personal, I regularly interact in the comments and find some truly insightful discussions there. Reddit is a totally random mess of crap that I used to like. The manual curation of subreddits feels outdated and a pain compared to TikTok's ability to "organically" bring me to content that I am interested in at the moment.

>>julien+lN
How do you initially train the tiktok algo? I don't have the willpower to wade through videos of children crying or dancing, acapella singers, people having small accidents, and so on.

And I swipe next as soon as I realize it's this kind of content.

>>SSLy+ZW
first i followed content creators i knew i'd like(legacy from other platforms), then the algo catches up really quickly.

also you have to be REALLY strict about the stuff you watch - if something comes up that you don't like the look of you can instantly swipe away. that trains the algo more accurately than saying you don't like something using built in tools but you can do that too if you really object to something.

for me it usually takes less than a week to train a new account to specific content, less than a day if it isn't niche("gaming" is easier to train than "gym exercises focused on strength over hypertrophy")