How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
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A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

  • ShdwdrgnEnglish
    110·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been noticing lately that the front page of reddit now only contains some posts from the last few subs I visited, even more posts from subs I barely even read before, and currently two posts from subs I’ve never seen but are now part of my subscribed reddits. And when I take the time to go through the posts that actually look interesting, those read posts stay on my front page for the rest of the day and no new content is brought up. At this point the front page is completely worthless and the only reason I visit is for r/comics and r/facebookscience, all my other content is found on lemmy and mastodon.

    • PeppycitoEnglish
      60·
      10 months ago

      Try surfing on your porn account. Totally obvious when all you intend to browse is NSFW

      • ShdwdrgnEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        People keep separate accounts for their porn? That just seems to suggest they are embarrassed by their kinks. 😄

        • PeppycitoEnglish
          80·
          10 months ago

          I don’t want to see porn all the time. When I want to see porn that’s all I want to see.

          • ShdwdrgnEnglish
            20·
            10 months ago

            I didn’t subscribe to any of the subs, rather I created a multi with a collection of the ones I was interested in, and gave it a generic-sounding name. Easy to click on but it never pops up on my home page and doesn’t stand out if I’m reading reddit at work. Gives me a nice bit of separation under a single account.

            Honestly I wish lemmy would introduce a feature like multi-reddits. I have a pretty long list of communities here and would love to break them up into groups. That’s the only feature of reddit I actually miss.

            • PeppycitoEnglish
              20·
              10 months ago

              My porn account was older than the devolopment of multi-reddits. The blocking, subscribing, and discovery of communities on lemmy is terrible. The average user will flounce before they discover anything they like because they’ll get overrun with creepy anime porn and foreign language communities.