Comment by dbg31415

1 month ago

Something I noticed today...

Fired up Reddit app on my phone and here's what I saw:

1 - Post from Subreddit I subscribe to.

2 - Post from Subreddit that Reddit promoted into my feed. Not really anything I'd be interested in.

3 - Non-targeted Advertisement. (Literally an ad about some kind of medication I think, I didn't click.)

4 - Post from Subreddit that Reddit promoted into my feed. Not really anything I'd be interested in.

5 - Post from Subreddit I subscribe to.

6 - Non-targeted Advertisement.

The pattern went on that way; every 3 posts was an ad. And fully half of the posts were from Subreddit I don't follow.

1/3 ads. 1/3 content I didn't want. 1/3 content I wanted.

I think that may be the end of Reddit for me. I don't really get a lot out of it before, and I get dramatically less when they force feed shit I don't want into my feed. What even is the point of subscribing to feeds if they're just going to put slop in that you don't subscribe to?

Also, I swore you used to be able to opt out of the feed promotions, and I swore I had those disabled, but today I can't find the settings to disable them. Cool. Cool cool cool.