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.
They’re all basically converging on the same shitty business model, these aren’t intended as products for you to use they intend you to serve them
Reading this announcement felt like an April Fools’ joke.
r/all is still working for now though, but wtf.
Reddit is completely compromised. Fuckin sad to see. I got Perma banned about a week ago so I suppose there’s nothing I’ll be missing out on. I hate to sound hyperbolic but the internet we once knew is gone. For a brief moment I. Human history we had almost unrestricted access to the wealth of human knowledge, paired with the ability to form niche forums accessable to everyone within our reach and we squandered it.
End of an era. Now the internet is a circlejerk fest of bots, slop, and propaganda. I migrated to Lemmy, seems like it’s starting to hit another wave of growth. I don’t see social media having the utility it once did, especially the mainstream sites.
Hell, even Google is slop nowadays. I always prided myself on my Google skills, being able to quickly find answers to whatever I needed. Now the first results are some slop pages that just spew out false information. Even with an adblocker it’s a pain to use.
So for years now I often added “reddit” to any Google search, but that lost its value too.
Generally I should be less online anyway (:
Yeah. Something. Like 75-80% of all content on the internet is AI generated now. Might be much worse since that figure was hit a while ago.
The internet isn’tade for humans anymore, which is ultimately something I don’t understand. Ai chat bots have taken over and we’re calling it “intelligence”.
For what? So a few rich fucks can eek out every last penny from us. If you’re human, I hope you’re well. Maybe getting off the internet is what we really need
The removal of all finally made me feel shitty enough on reddit that I’ve come back to give Lemmy another shot
Exactly like FB changing their algorithm so you no longer see friends life updates at all and now see spam, ai slop, and ads.
Which defeats the whole point but at this point Facebook is just hanging on if it’s existing user base sucking what little value there is left out of it before it collapses from totally irrelevancy
Which defeats the whole point
The modern model for Facebook is as digital flypaper. Trapping users in their ecosystem on the assumption the social network and the poor tech skills, plus the highly addictive algorithm, will keep them mired in psychological quicksand until all their vital essences are harvested.
As disgusting as the site is, I still find myself peaking back in to reach out to an old friend or family member, because that’s literally the only way I have to communicate. Incredibly frustrating.
I’m going to save this description. 🎯
Not like r/all was heavily skewed towards one side of content (US politics, satisfying clips, animals doing things, rage stuff).
Doesnt feel like much will be missed that can’t be had anywhere else.even if it was skewed, I knew that it’s what everyone else was seeing. it brings a sense of community (even though it started to get overtaken by frontpage bots)
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
Thats psychotic.
I don’t think it has anything to do with paranoid delusions.
Agree to disagree
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.
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.
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
coolhornyHey. Leave that one alone, I liked jorkin my peanits to people’s grandmas
“Look how hot my Mom was guys, don’t you think she was so sexy?” - average oldschoolcool poster
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.
This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.
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.
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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.
“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.
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.
No, it is clarified within the thread that /r/all will stop working “after the rollout is complete”
You’re replying to the wrong comment there. This isn’t about whether they’ll remove it or not.
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.
I never subscribed to subs. I read all and individual subs.
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
edit: I mistakenly throught they were pushing /r/popular still, but they’re working towards just a “personalized” feed. eh, nevermind my point.
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.
Reddit decides to remove it all.
No-one accused the Reddit leadership as smart.
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 on it as an active user.
If you’ve only been there 4 years, you never even saw the site when it was good.
Man, reddit hasn’t been good since Victoria got canned. No scratch that, at least 3 years before that.
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
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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
But they direct users to /r/popular instead… what’s the difference there anyway? It doesn’t seem to have any special inclusion rules, as I can still get all the zero upvote zero comment posts if I sort by new. So I don’t see what the point of /r/popular was/is before /r/all’s removal.
r/popular can be set to a country. For the US, it’s pretty similar to r/all for any other country, it’s distinct and boosts local subreddits and language.
Maybe the reason I don’t see much of a difference is because I’m using old reddit?
What country did you select?
I’m not sure I follow, I didn’t select anything. Can’t find a setting about it in preferences. Well, except for the general location setting which seems to be a shreddit-only feature, as I need to go to shreddit to set it.
They curate the subs that appear.
All is everything minus a deny list (nsfw).
Popular is a list of what they approve, or more recently it’s the algorithmic feed.
I only used my own subs for my personal interests or All to discover something new. It was, at least at one time, good for surfacing things I never would have looked for. More often things that didn’t interest me, but that was valuable in itself.
Huh interesting, thanks for explaining! Sorting by new includes all kinds of random subs, so it doesn’t look much more curated to me than /r/all, though.
Per the thread, it is on its deathbed.
Typing reddit.com/r/all in a browser will work until the rollout is complete.
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.
I got perma’d for saying a straight-up sieg-heiling neo-Nazi harassing a Jewish couple in an American suburb should have his nose broken so he can worry about his own for a change.
At first I was kind of bewildered having had used it for nearly 10 years, but it was much better this way. I try to keep Aesop’s famous sour grapes fable in mind when I say things like this, but no: every time I end up on Reddit for some reason, I’m dumbfounded anyone could use it in its current condition. Even beyond the visual vomit that is the UI – before I left, mine was a very “Reddit circa 2015 frozen in time” experience thanks to RiF and RES – it feels like iFunny when I realized it was just backwash from other sites like Reddit and left it.
The content is so painfully insipid. It’s all something from fifteen million variations of “/r/damnthatsinteresting”, a repost bot, a dogshit tabloid discussing US politics, “ChatGPT writes a clear-cut ragebait story and users tell the OP if they’re justified”, screenshots from Twitter on their dozenth round of compression, or TikTok’s backwash in the form of v.reddit.
A lot of that stuff is here too, but at least it’s small enough here that real human interaction happens in the comments regardless, and it’s much worse there. I used to get on Reddit for an hour and feel honest-to-goodness enriched by the experience. I felt like I learned new things and saw new, cogent perspectives. I feel utterly hollow on the rare occasion I check Reddit these days, like I just got out of a soulless spin cycle designed to trap me by shutting off my brain.
This is kind of my feelings at this point. The vast majority of Reddit right now is careening towards Facebook levels of bot activity. Be it repost bots, Russian trolls, what have you…it’s just really hard to pick out what’s a real human at this point. Just so much repetitive shit. I will genuinely miss some of the special interest, more niche communities over there. The equivalents on Lemmy are still kind of ghost towns at the moment. But yeah, at first I was angry that I got permabanned (for telling a MAGA that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them). But the more I step back and assess the situation, I’m happy those dumbfucks did the job for me. Fuck Reddit. Which is sad, because it used to be pretty fucking amazing.
I’ve been off for a while and it had been going downhill for years. It was awesome in 2012 and as the 2010’s rolled on they started pissing me off more and more.
I’m afraid it’s only downhill from here. Reddit’s already a shell of it’s former self and it will continue to degrade until someone pulls the plug on whatever sorry state it’s in
Since my account got banned I browse r/all and use RES to filter subreddits I don’t care for.
It still appears to be there. https://old.reddit.com/r/all/
I got banned for 7 days last week for allegedly being racist. I can’t be bothered to argue there point with poorly educated moderators.
What’s Reddit?
Still works perfectly fine under Old Reddit. Was refreshing the page and browsing it just this morning.
They’re saying it will be phased out entirely…
It works, for now
