Funny that you use old.reddit.com. I used this too. I could not handle the new reddit - it was useless for me.

Lately the algorithm for the front page sorted by hot or best has been changed. You'd see mostly threads from subreddit you recently visited. So you no longer have control over what you don't get to see.

I use old.reddit on my desktop, new.reddit on my phone and new.reddit is constantly mashing in posts from a more niche "my-country" sub (eg: not the "main" /r/country) that's often got very baity posts (eg: guised "does anyone else hate immigrants??" posts).

Same account, same behaviour, but the new site is really pushing "gross" stuff at me.

If you ask me, the few posts criticizing immigration that do manage to stay up are the least of Reddit's problems.

Click on Home in the new app and you are met with an endless onslaught of far left political content. "Trump bad, ICE bad, Republicans bad, Musk bad" make up most of the posts.

Ideologically captured default subreddits like /r/pics keep pushing politics; if I'd say 50% of the pictures posted there were of a political nature with a clear left motive, that would be a low estimate. This is pushed to 30M subscribed users and, if my feed is any indication, everyone else too.

If we want to talk "gross stuff", some Arabic subreddits openly celebrate terrorist groups, talking about how brave they are. I saw a "moderator" compare the actions of the Al-Qassam brigades to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. To get the post taken down it required sending the "EU illegal content" form rather than using the regular reporting channels.

Given that any moderately conservative opinion has a hard time staying on Reddit without being censored or the poster being harassed by a bunch of left extremists, I find your comment complaining about posts criticizing immigration to be particularly hypocritical.

Honestly, I don't use the front page. I frequent a diverse set of communities there but I can't imagine wanting to see all the posts mixed together.

I go straight to subs' /new URLs.

That feeling of controlling your feed. It's just a feeling. Carefully calibrated so you feel like you can do something without doing it.

The feeling have is that we don't browse the internet in the same way.

RSS for HN and other specific sites I want updates about. old.reddit/r/.../new pages. A third party app for YouTube to just view new things from people I subscribe to.

I definitely have fight harder and harder to, browse like it's 2006, avoid the Algoslop Train, but it is possible more places than you'd think.

> That's what I've lost on Facebook

As I found out a while ago on HN when I complained an extension I used stopped working, ?sk=h_chr still works to get a sane FB view. No sponsored shit, no algorithmic suggestions, no posts people have reacted to, just chronological posts of people & pages you follow.

I also use old reddit.