This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.
I've been using the official app a couple times lately (out if curiousity). It's ridiculous how little is left. Almost the enire feed is either advertisements, or algorithm. The plus side is that it is pretty obvious to distinguish them, but that makes that you can just scroll past 20+ posts without stopping. The feeling that gives me, almost always makes me close the app. Hilariously, I think this is exactly the opposite effect of what reddit engineers wanted to achieve with their enshitification.
As a response to this change, here I am on Lemmy instead.
I'm in this thread because of lemmys "all" view
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i just joined because of this. i was waiting for lemmys community to grow a bit larger first but r/all is literally the only reason i browse reddit at all. these idiots are playing themselves with this crap
That's the problem. All reddit users are waiting for lemmy to be larger without actually wanting to be part of making it larger. It's a vicious cycle. Fortunately for us reddit is hell bent on shooting it's own foot
I comment frequently and occasionally post, which puts me in the top % of users per the 90-9-1 rule
I believe Lemmy is pretty lively at the moment.
It is in some communities. But there are certain places I used to see pretty regular updates and engagement on Reddit that either don’t exist here or are absolute ghost towns. You can say that’s because of a different user base and different priorities and that’s fair — but then you can’t complain about low involvement/engagement by people who want to participate in those communities.
I miss the thriving, active subreddits for fountain pens, watches, and calculators. I tried being the change I wanted to see in a watch community, but after about a week of being the only poster, It just kinda felt like I was just showing off my watch collection. Fountain pens is a bit more active, at a few posts per month. Forget about calculators.
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It’s not addictive enough. You might see something that isn’t algorithmically tailored to enrage you or make you horny, and you’ll get bored for 3 seconds and navigate away from Reddit.
Before I stopped using reddit, I was having this issue where it would literally show me the exact same post several times (like, not a crosspost, straight up the very same post) and it would get worse the further you scrolled. By page 5 or so, it'd be nothing but posts you'd already been shown. I just checked and it's still doing it. I don't know if this was just me or not, but it made it a lot easier to stop visiting.
That’s Reddit’s new “Read It Again” feature.
Damn you beat me to it
Tbf many main subs have been optimizing for horny in one fashion or another. It was just generating way too much interaction not to
Oldschool~~cool~~horny
Reddit and X are the two social media spaces where I legitimately don't know how they're making money lol.
I mean I guess reddit signed an AI deal for content scraping, but what's the point if no useful new content is generated.
Even ignoring the fact that its probably the leading reason why Gemini sucks total crap.
my old company wanted to investigate reddit advertising
the smallest campaign started at $10k USD
When I use reddit, it's old.reddit exclusively. And old.reddit still has 'all' listed on the top.
I don't use standard reddit, so I don't know if 'all' was on the navigation pane before today or not, but it's not there now. However, reddit.com/r/all still returns a feed, so maybe the address still works.
Lmfao so glad I left that dumpster fire. r/all was he only way I ever browsed.
I mean it's been heavily filtered for the better part of a decade. I never really minded some of the filtering, which at first was just quarantining the far right, but then nsfw subs got hidden, etc. Pretty quickly it was the old standard front page with a bit of chaos.
Also strangely enough, when I first started using Reddit around 2011, everyone just went straight to the frontage for everything, and the defaults in the front page dominated the app, it was probably around 2015-2016 that people actually pivoted to /r/all after the defaults of the front page were bland and stagnant, and from then on, the admins have taken steps to make /r/ all bland and stagnant too.
Wow, jesus. When I read this post's title, I assumed it was being hyperbolic and that they just changed the name of /r/all or something.
Nope. The literal "Front Page of the Internet" that made Reddit what it is is gone. Staggering. What an unrecognizable, catastrophic shithole that place has turned into in the four years since ~~I've been~~ I was on it as an active user. (Edit: As in "I left four years ago"; didn't recognize the dual meaning.)
If you've only been there 4 years, you never even saw the site when it was good.
Other way around. I left there four years ago having used it actively for effectively a decade. Sorry, that was bad phrasing on my part.
Remember when Reddit was open source? I can’t even remember when it was made closed source. Holy fuck spaz is a cunt.
Am I the only one who doesn't use Reddit? That platform has been getting enshittified for years. Plus, Lemmy encourages actual discussions and isn't filled with AI bots.
And nothing of value was lost
EDIT: After reading the comments in this thread I think I should elaborate...
The only thing that makes Reddit not X or Facebook are their niche communities. For years, Reddit corporate has been moving to homogenize them and shove them all into a single algorithmic slop feed that auto-adjusts to what you linger on like Tiktok. /r/all and /r/popular are basically just endless slop feeds of bots reposing engagement bait for people with brain rot to look at while they poop. But having slop and topic-based communities in a single feed invites those brainrotted people to jump into any community they are not a member of and vomit all over it without learning the rules/culture/etc.
Honestly I think focusing on and prioritizing their myriad small communities and not the people who want slop feed is a smart move for user retention. I still won't go back there, but I think it's a smart move.
I don't even care anymore to be honest. Most of the legacy social media platforms have become absolute garbage. Reddit was the introduction to the wild west of internet commentary for me. Compared to 15 years ago versus today it's unrecognizable.
r/all is too generalized to push targeted advertising on it so every user who spends time on there should in reddits eyes be somewhere else where they can be milked for cash easier
It also trends much more political than /r/popular. (Low quality liberal bait like "DAE think trump bad???" most of the time, but still). Their explicit goal with their "alternative" feeds was to de-rank the political discussions in favor of 9gag-esque slop.
When a big political event happened, you could go to /r/all and be blasted with tens of discussions about it, or go to /r/popular and watch staged animal rescue videos or whatever.
Now I'm not saying it's a conspiracy necessarily, but it certainly is yet another major loss for free political speech online.
“The r/all experiment has concluded and the decision was made to remove r/all. I'm so sorry. =/ Reddit is leaning toward simplifying your experience to make it more personalized and relevant to your subscriptions and interests. I know some of you have some pretty strong feelings about this and I totally get that! Feel free to leave comments on this post. I will continue to pass along constructive feedback to that team.”
Haha.
Don't worry folks, it was not a basic feature since day one, it was an experiment!
The way it's worded, it does sound like /r/all is the experiment they're referring to.
But I think it makes more sense if they're referring to an experiment involving /r/all. I remember reading months ago that they wanted to remove it, maybe they are referring to an A/B testing experiment (remove it for some people and not for others) there.
Yeah, that makes sense. They had an experiment to see if they could increase ad revenue by removing the all-feed, and now it's concluded and it turns out that yes indeed, enshittification rolls on.
I cannot imagine staying on a service that is openly admitting running experiments on its users to make them as addicted as possible. I guess it's a boiling frog kind of deal.
They said they wanted to remove r/popular a few months ago.
But it looks like they were referring to r/all this entire time.
That's about it for me then. I exclusively use r/all. Without being signed too.
I don't care if I see content I don't like nor care about. The point is to not be spoon fed some "algorithm". And it lets me see the state of the platform as a whole.
What a dumpster fire. I would be mad about this if I still visited the site! Long, long time since it started enshittifying, and they're not done yet! Get your friends, family, and coworkers to use the fediverse...
I got permabanned from Reddit for talking mad shit about AI and saying what I think should happen to ICE and Trump, so I guess I didn't care. Pretty funny though.
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