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0 pointseitally1y ago0 comments

The same is true with Reddit. The default feed is absolutely awful, but the bar required to curate something individually interesting and useful is too high for most new users, given the toxicity + banality of the default.

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evantbyrne1y ago· 4 in thread

I finally quit my barren Twitter when the Musk takeover resulted in my feed being flooded with porn (including illegal content) and arabic carpet cleaning ads. I seriously doubt anyone's default Reddit front page has ever looked like that.

commandlinefan1y ago

I keep seeing people say they've experienced this, but I've been on twitter for years (pre Musk and stayed post Musk) and I've never once seen porn on there. How does this happen by accident?

swatcoder1y ago

They're going to have a pretty developed and stable picture of you and what you respond to by now, especially of their view of you aligns with high- value placements already.

So they probably don't bother to audition that kind of content for you very often because they already have strategies that milk your attention, engagement, and wallet better.

When you hear other people share their experience as new or different users, keep in mind how customized all these platforms are and how idiosycratically optimized they'll already be for you as a long-time, engaged user.

Most people can't go back in time to get where you are, and don't have any sure (or worthwhile) road to get there.

SmirkingRevenge1y ago

In my case, my (now deleted) account (which was primarily read-only) would get several porn bot followers per day. If I didn't log in for a week, I'd have dozens of new "p#i#c#s#i#n#b#i#o" type accounts following me.

Towards the end, there would often be porn in replies of many posts on all kinds of topics, like politics, news, etc.

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WalterBright1y ago

I don't see any porn in my feed. Some of it is salacious, but not porn.

ge961y ago· 2 in thread

YouTube is nuts when not logged in as well. Those crazy clickbait thumbnails eg. Mr. Beast or whatever.

jiggawatts1y ago

My logged-in YouTube shows me almost entirely 3blue1brown, Applied Science, and the like. Logged out it is 100% chum and garbage.

ge961y ago

I wish the home was better showing the stuff you followed vs. having to go into subscriptions tab.

edit: there are a limited number of tiles to show but yeah

i_love_retros1y ago· 2 in thread

I'm sorry but reddit is trash. Every subreddit, no matter how niche, is basically cringy phrases being repeated or photos of some "home set up" or said niche product someone bought who is looking for validation of their decision. It's so bad I blocked reddit from my search engine results.

eitallyOP1y ago

Clearly we're using different subs. ymmv.

i_love_retros1y ago

Provide an example of a sub that isn't like that?

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lupusreal1y ago

On reddit the defaults are shit and the rest of the site bans you by default until you've karmawhored yourself past an arbitrary threshold on those defaults. Trash website.

I used to use it years back. Some subreddits were really great but they all inevitability devolved so I lost any interest in maintaining active accounts there. r/skookum had really interesting content for a while but devolved into idiots reposting the same skookum brand wrenches over and over again.

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