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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.
Instead we actually have a problem of too many leftists of different varieties consistently beefing, so kinda similar to bots sometimes.
I also don’t usually use Reddit since i came over to Lemmy and while the content can be a bit thin I much more prefer it over here.
it’s a weird feeling when a feature to see the same stuff that everyone else sees gets removed in favor of personalized feeds. it’s like my connection with the outside world was severed. this sucks.
The removal of all finally made me feel shitty enough on reddit that I’ve come back to give Lemmy another shot
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
Clowns
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.
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
Welcome and thanks for joining. I hope you can realize the irony of not joining because not enough other people joined.
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 believe Lemmy is pretty lively at the moment.
Nice! Browsing by All here works great, just block the communities you aren’t interested in. I started out subscribing to ones I wanted but the smaller scale makes All decently readable. If there’s a community you wish was here feel free to start it!
Is there a way to block communities without having to enter them? Sometimes I’m like “icch, that’s nasty”, but I have to get all up in the nasty to turn it off.
If you go to your settings, there should be another tab up left that has all the blocking options
Browse by All, Top 6 Hours gang rise up
I do Top 12 because I try to touch grass on occasion.
Heck yeah, even browse by New is manageable sometimes!
I like the “new comments” section myself
Reporting for duty.
Welcome!
One of us
One of us!
Welcome friend!
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.
I think it says something about Reddit and their UX design that old.reddit.com still exists and is incredibly popular like five or six years after they introduced their sparkly air quote new Reddit
Ha, try eight years!
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.
I sincerely hope it is not their engineers that wanted this.
Somehow I doubt that they listen to their engineers at all regarding policy decisions.
If lemmy wants to succeed, we need to follow suit and remove sorting by all! It’s the only way! /s
I left reddit about the time they introduced /r/popular and I recall the announcement mentioning that they would remove /r/all eventually. It’s been a long time, but this was coming.
It does kind of frustrate me that they’re messing with people’s dopamine receptors, trapping them in reddit for a bit longer
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 beenI 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.
Me too
Remember when Reddit was open source? I can’t even remember when it was made closed source. Holy fuck spaz is a cunt.
The new reddit design was a pure cancer. I still use old.reddit links because when I tick in settings to opt out of new design, reddit unticks it for me every single fucking month
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.
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
coolhorny“Look how hot my Mom was guys, don’t you think she was so sexy?” - average oldschoolcool poster
Hey. Leave that one alone, I liked jorkin my peanits to people’s grandmas
Damn you beat me to it
Or just something we don’t want you to see.
Individualized censored bubbles for all of us, so nobody has the same world view.
edit: my comment was like 80% right but found out something that made me 20% wrong and… it’s not worth arguing what I was going for. Comment withdrawn.
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.
Lol. I think someone’s going to teach you what an algorithm actually means but it isn’t going to be me.
Fuck every algorithm from what controls what I see on social media to the process of long division and the instructions on how to find my tax deduction!
What is the point of this reply but to publicly announce your smugness. Down voted for low content.
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.
Everyone was the “same” r/all before. They’re talking about “personal interests”.
They’re about to go full Tik Tok and show content as a function of your prior engagement.
I’m waiting for the day when reddit only works with their official mobile app. You have no feed anymore, just see one post at a time, and you can swipe if you want to see the next one
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
Not only advertising but also astroturfing, control narratives etc.
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.
edit: I mistakenly throught they were pushing /r/popular still, but they’re working towards just a “personalized” feed. eh, nevermind my point.
The /r/all experiment has ended
Wtf lmao
The experiment was to hide r/all from some users and now the experiment ended and they remove r/all completely.
Feels like a technique the Trump admin would use to justify something atrocious. “This thing that’s always been around? Yeah it was temporary and we’re finally getting rid of it! Nobody even used it!”
Users: /r/all is one of the cornerstones that make Reddit Reddit and a central part of its success
Corpo lizards: we have deemed /r/all is too hard to shape into a surveillance capitalism tool, so we’re gonna pretend it was a beta feature. Now consoom your Personalized Experience ™
Some retard CEO is drooling somewhere over the excel spreadsheet.
There are better ways to make this comment.
Welcome to Lemmy but we don’t use slurs here. The problem with CEOs isn’t that they have unspecified mental illnesses it’s that they’re evil pieces of shit
I guess you don’t watch South Park either? Your loss, it’s an enlightening show
Edgy TV shows don’t affect my beliefs that slurs are bad, and they shouldn’t affect yours either.
If they can use them and it’s okay, then so can I
Amazing shit. Love how the hapless community manager has to be all “decision won’t change but you can shout at the wind for all the help it will do” because they literally have nothing else to say about it
