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i just joined because of this. i was waiting for lemmys community to grow a bit larger first but r/all is literally the only reason i browse reddit at all. these idiots are playing themselves with this crap
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Welcome friend!
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
I believe Lemmy is pretty lively at the moment.
It’s good enough now.that I don’t get bored but there is still a narrow range of topics that are lively at the moment.
It is in some communities. But there are certain places I used to see pretty regular updates and engagement on Reddit that either don’t exist here or are absolute ghost towns. You can say that’s because of a different user base and different priorities and that’s fair — but then you can’t complain about low involvement/engagement by people who want to participate in those communities.
I miss the thriving, active subreddits for fountain pens, watches, and calculators. I tried being the change I wanted to see in a watch community, but after about a week of being the only poster, It just kinda felt like I was just showing off my watch collection. Fountain pens is a bit more active, at a few posts per month. Forget about calculators.
Yeah. I’m a fan of some less-popular musicians who have a few hundred Redditors and at least a dozen active participants. Here it’s literally me talking to a wall. Or no forum at all.
That’s a shame. I think I’ve been talking at my coworkers more without those spaces, probably more than they are interested. But yeah, the empty communities here are just like yelling into the void.
I comment frequently and occasionally post, which puts me in the top % of users per the 90-9-1 rule
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!
Browse by All, Top 6 Hours gang rise up
I do Top 12 because I try to touch grass on occasion.
Heck yeah, even browse by New is manageable sometimes!
I like the “new comments” section myself
Reporting for duty.
Is there a way to block communities without having to enter them? Sometimes I’m like “icch, that’s nasty”, but I have to get all up in the nasty to turn it off.
If you go to your settings, there should be another tab up left that has all the blocking options
Okay, I can just c&p the community name to that page. Thanks!
There should be, yeah theres some real… eccentric folks here. Maybe a future update will allow “block community” right from the post. Not to my knowledge, apart from going to your user profile settings and typing it into the actual block list.
Welcome and thanks for joining. I hope you can realize the irony of not joining because not enough other people joined.
Fortunately a toward the end of the post they tell people how to delete Reddit accounts!
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 that bubbled the most awful stuff to the front page that was blatantly gamed by bad actors.
Edit: are these downvotes because I’m wrong, or because people skim-read it and kneejerk reacted to “reddit did a good thing”?
It
wasis a flaming garbage heap on multiple levels.This won’t help or fix anything except ad revenue.
The /r/all experiment has ended
Wtf lmao
Some retard CEO is drooling somewhere over the excel spreadsheet.
There are better ways to make this comment.
I know, right? I’m self censoring on purpose
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
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.
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.
The removal of all finally made me feel shitty enough on reddit that I’ve come back to give Lemmy another shot
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
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)
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
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. 🎯
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.
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
my old company wanted to investigate reddit advertising
the smallest campaign started at $10k USD
Not everyone has a product sponsorship. /s
Am I the only one who doesn’t use Reddit? That platform has been getting enshittified for years. Plus, Lemmy encourages actual discussions and isn’t filled with AI bots.
Instead we actually have a problem of too many leftists of different varieties consistently beefing, so kinda similar to bots sometimes.
I also don’t usually use Reddit since i came over to Lemmy and while the content can be a bit thin I much more prefer it over here.
Lemmy is actually somewhere between center and center-right.
Edit: Why is everyone downvoting? As a left winger myself, it’s true.
Sadly like other platforms the population is not high enough on lemmy for exclusivity. Like certain niche sub reddit dont exist on lemmy. Like it still top for tech support searches.
True, but that’s easily solvable, especially if people start dual posting
it’s got porn though
Just use
old.reddit.comto browse porn, and delete your account.In my experience Lemmy also has great porn, though I’m not picky myself. I was using lemmynsfw.com for a while, but now that’s shut down. I think there’s been a new instance to replace it.
Unfortunately if you live in a shithole state you can’t look at most of it.
based on the fact that I’m referring to Reddit, this is not in fact the case
You should see porn sites!
Clowns
That’s about it for me then. I exclusively use r/all. Without being signed too.
I don’t care if I see content I don’t like nor care about. The point is to not be spoon fed some “algorithm”. And it lets me see the state of the platform as a whole.
Lol. I think someone’s going to teach you what an algorithm actually means but it isn’t going to be me.
Fuck every algorithm from what controls what I see on social media to the process of long division and the instructions on how to find my tax deduction!
What is the point of this reply but to publicly announce your smugness. Down voted for low content.
What a dumpster fire. I would be mad about this if I still visited the site! Long, long time since it started enshittifying, and they’re not done yet! Get your friends, family, and coworkers to use the fediverse…
If they haven’t switched yet, they aren’t going to now. Unfortunately the reality.
Former /r/all user here who had zero subreddit subscriptions for over ten years. Left after the api thing.
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
Lmfao so glad I left that dumpster fire. r/all was he only way I ever browsed.
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.
Yeah, and I understand the sentiment that people don’t want an algorithm on the site picking what they see, but r/all has been that way for a while. Votes have been manipulated to high hell, and while maybe it’s not exactly deciding what you see, it is and always has been 100% deciding what you don’t see.
When I use reddit, it’s old.reddit exclusively. And old.reddit still has ‘all’ listed on the top.
I don’t use standard reddit, so I don’t know if ‘all’ was on the navigation pane before today or not, but it’s not there now. However, reddit.com/r/all still returns a feed, so maybe the address still works.
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
Ha, try eight years!
“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.
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.
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
