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Reddit decides to remove r/all (www.reddit.com)
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[–] 102 points 8 months ago (26 children)

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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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    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

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  • [+] 11 points 8 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Browse by All, Top 6 Hours gang rise up

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    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.

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    • [–] 100 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

    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 I was on it as an active user. (Edit: As in "I left four years ago"; didn't recognize the dual meaning.)

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Didn't r/all and r/popular become identical after they started filtering NSFW from r/all quite a few years ago? I couldn't tell the difference after that change at least. It honestly makes sense to delete one of them if they're the same.

    Edit: Never mind, apparently they removed r/popular too.

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    • [+] 134 points 8 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Tbf many main subs have been optimizing for horny in one fashion or another. It was just generating way too much interaction not to

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 185 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 56 points 8 months ago

    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

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    [–] [S] 50 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    “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.”

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  • [–] 89 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Haha.

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

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    No, it is clarified within the thread that /r/all will stop working "after the rollout is complete"

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    • [–] 48 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    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.

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    • [–] 45 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Lol. I think someone's going to teach you what an algorithm actually means but it isn't going to be me.

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    • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    The /r/all experiment has ended

    Wtf lmao

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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!"

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    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 ™

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Some retard CEO is drooling somewhere over the excel spreadsheet.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I guess you don't watch South Park either? Your loss, it's an enlightening show

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    • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    As a response to this change, here I am on Lemmy instead.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    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!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Welcome! Strap in. It's an opinionated bunch here, to be sure, but also the #1 place I've ever seen on the Internet where people will sometimes go -

    "oh, ya know, you were right, my bad". Or similar.

    But don't get the wrong idea, still the Internet lol.

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    • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Reading this announcement felt like an April Fools' joke.

    r/all is still working for now though, but wtf.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    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 (:

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I guess we can still have small safe heavens for humans though.

    Like I have a Discord server I like chatting on. And just being here on Lemmy again for a day I had more interactions than in a month on Reddit.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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