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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing that is killing reddit for me is its endless suggestion of communities that I may want to read. I use reddit to get away from having stuff shoved into my face. I want to explore and find things that are relevant to me or things that are unique and challenging, not have random nonsense shown to me as a way of increasing some silly engagement metric.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that right there is the biggest reason I never swapped to the new reddit redesign. Looks and aesthetics are one thing, but constantly having fake notifications about "you may like this post" or "you may like this community" shoved into my feed with the same notification icon as an actual reply to a post kept getting on my nerves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes that's it. It feels sort of manipulative.