Reddit

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.

If lemmy wants to succeed, we need to follow suit and remove sorting by all! It’s the only way! /s

It does kind of frustrate me that they're messing with people's dopamine receptors, trapping them in reddit for a bit longer

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

If you've only been there 4 years, you never even saw the site when it was good.

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

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!

Welcome and thanks for joining. I hope you can realize the irony of not joining because not enough other people joined.

Welcome!

Haha.

Don't worry folks, it was not a basic feature since day one, it was an experiment!

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!"

Exactly like FB changing their algorithm so you no longer see friends life updates at all and now see spam, ai slop, and ads.

The removal of all finally made me feel shitty enough on reddit that I've come back to give Lemmy another shot

I'm in this thread because of lemmys "all" view

Welcome to Lemmy, the frontpage of the internet.

Please, do help with creating content. Be the change you want to see. Lemmy is for the community, by the community. Welcome!

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 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.

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 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