Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by mcphage on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:02AM (#37379661)

Reddit has gotten very aggressive about pushing random subs onto you. I’ve really come to loathe the phrase “Because you interacted with a similar community”. I have muted so many subs, I’m getting sick of the site.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by vgbm on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:38AM (#37379919)

If you are using the app, I believe you can get rid of this under settings > username > enable home feed recommendations. Turning it off makes the app way more usable.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by mcphage on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:32PM (#37387218)

I just turned that off. If it works: thank you so very much!

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by mcphage on Monday September 11, 2023 @10:00AM (#37467383)

So it's been a week, and I haven't had to mute a random sub in all that time. Seriously, thank you—maybe it would be better for me to stop using Reddit, but if I'm going to be using it, at least it's not constantly throwing crap I don't care about in my face.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by jvm___ on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:15AM (#37379755)

Facebook's recommended images are even worse. [picture of a surveyors dot on the ground] "This dot in a field in Wisconsin is the center of the world. The other points are inaccessible due to water, but this tiny dot is..."

[picture of a dead something with a pig snout completely covered in farmers field mud] "This 30,000 year old cave bear was found with DNA still extractable."

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by pndy on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:51AM (#37380010)

> Facebook's recommended images are even worse.

I did log into Messenger (Lite version if that matters) quite recently - while I'm not using site anymore for more than 10 years or so, I do periodically check if people on my friends list want something. So I started scrolling thru contact list to see who's online and at some point some random people started to appear. Some whom I sent once a message, then even totally random ones I never heard about (perhaps some cross-friends pairing happen) and next, some local celebrities that perhaps I'd like to talk to acc. to fb, and some weird profiles pulled out of nowhere.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by drivers99 on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:10AM (#37379713)

Must be an app thing. I use https://old.reddit.com and don’t get that.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by markx2 on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:55AM (#37380037)

Agreed.

I use old.reddit.com + umatrix + ublock + custom css with tampermonkey

I now see nothing they want me to see.

I am very happy to leech.

Said as a previous mod who helped grow a sub from <25k users to almost 1 million.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by landmass on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:28AM (#37380262)

My participation has changed since the API change. I use old.reddit and uBlock Origin as I always have. I limit myself to scanning a few sub-reddits to ensure nothing bad has happened to Bitwarden and Yubikey, I don't log in and certainly don't contribute as I used to. If/when old.reddit stops functioning I'll stop even that low level of participation.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by PrimeMcFly on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:29AM (#37379846)

I use old.reddit, with ublock origin not just to block ads but to block specific reddit buttons or things they try to introduce, and with res I have my regular subs I visit added as shortcuts in a top bar.

I never see anything I don't want to, and it's very useable this way. I literally never just see the 'reddit homepage', it's always a sub I specifically want to see.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by godzillabrennus on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:35AM (#37379898)

Yeah, this is how I use Reddit too. I see the writing on the wall though. They are coming for our beloved old interface. It won’t be long before we are deplatformed so they can try and monetize the crazy ones who make the journey over to the confusing and ad riddled new interface.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by PrimeMcFly on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:45AM (#37380425)

Yeeeeeah. Honestly don't know if I will keep using it if/when they remove old.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by cimov on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:59AM (#37380066)

Similar here but without any custom blocking. Could you share your filters and which interface elements they target?

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by PrimeMcFly on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:52AM (#37380482)

Happy to share, but honestly I don't specifically remember what they block, it was just anything that annoyed me. I've had them in place for quite a while and the random IDs don't give any clue, although I did leave comments for some and others are self-explanatory.

Looking at my list I'm unsure why I have some of what I do in there. I guess just experiment and see if anything is improved.

Sorry for the lack of code formatting - didn't want to use a pastebin since it may not persevere.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by cimov on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:03AM (#37380572)

Thank you, I appreciate you sharing! Will give them a try.

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Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod... by PrimeMcFly on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:13AM (#37380669)

My pleasure, hope it improves things somewhat :)

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