Re:Addressing the community about changes to our API
by jen20 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @08:45AM
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Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”.
I won’t stand for it, and have just stopped using Reddit - mostly passively, but occasionally posting. Without a user-respective native client that follows system conventions and does not push garbage, the service is just not worth using.
Re:Addressing the community about changes to our API
by tedmiston on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:53PM
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> Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”.
Where are you getting that on reddit? I don't think I've ever seen content that's not normal posts in my subreddits. [Maybe it's been there the whole time but ad blocked away or something so I'm just never seeing it?]
I don't use r/popular, r/news, r/all, etc much if they're doing something different there.
Re:Addressing the community about changes to our API
by utucuro on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:00AM
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If you don't follow a lot of subreddits, then they regularly pester you to follow some, or a stupid live stream of something or the other, or other similar stuff designed to increase "engagement".
I hate engagement.
But that's what so great about reddit compared to the other big social media platforms: hard delineation by interest groups (subreddits).
Instagram, and any others (AFAIK) do not have anything like this feature. It's all just a jumbled mess of user-to-user connections.
I wouldn't say we're "losing the biggest internet forum" there. They can still make reddit more mainstream without old communities having to change much, right?