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Re:Addressing the community about changes to our API by jen20 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @08:45AM (#36270003)
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 (#36273692)
> 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 (#36293535)
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.