Redreader still seems to be pulling posts into a collection like r/all. I have had some theories about how it works and have always used it to have an uncurated experience.
I’m thinking it isn’t opening r/all in reddit’s API and it instead kind of builds that selection of posts from everywhere on redreader’s end. I can’t prove it but the fact it’s working now seems to play into this. Maybe I’m delusional.
Either way, fingers crossed reddit doesn’t get sick of blind people getting to control their own content stream and boot it off the API. Would pretty much fit the bill for their shit
edit: They’re actually wanting to kill /r/popular as well which invalidates points I was making, comment withdrawn.
No sweat. I don’t think redreader has a popular filter so I wasn’t aware of it
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
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
They aren’t. They run off of VC money and cheap lending. Most of the sudden enshitification we are seeing is a direct consequence of the end of the era of easy money
Not everyone has a product sponsorship. /s
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.
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 Comment withdrawn.
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.
Or just something we don’t want you to see.
Individualized censored bubbles for all of us, so nobody has the same world view.
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
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.
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.
It does kind of frustrate me that they’re messing with people’s dopamine receptors, trapping them in reddit for a bit longer
If lemmy wants to succeed, we need to follow suit and remove sorting by all! It’s the only way! /s
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Reddit decides to remove it all.
The /r/all experiment has ended
Wtf lmao
Some retard CEO is drooling somewhere over the excel spreadsheet.
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
There are better ways to make this comment.
I know, right? I’m self censoring on purpose
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 ™
The experiment was to hide r/all from some users and now the experiment ended and they remove r/all completely.
I don’t really get the hate for that decision. For years, r/all was just straight up bots upvoting posts. You had posts with 50k+ upvotes and about a hundred comments in total. And the karma farmers made sure you saw the same post 2 or 3 times on the front page, just from different subreddits.
Yeah removing it is the first good decision they’ve made in years. It was a flaming garbage heap on multiple levels.
It
wasis a flaming garbage heap on multiple levels.This won’t help or fix anything except ad revenue.
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.
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
Remember when Reddit was open source? I can’t even remember when it was made closed source. Holy fuck spaz is a cunt.
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
Fortunately a toward the end of the post they tell people how to delete Reddit accounts!
Clowns
