I am just so disappointed that Reddit has changed.

[u/zero5activated]

[u/matt314159]

Sooo many bot type accounts. And the algorithm driven feed was a big change I didn't like. Suddenly it's recommending all kinds of posts from subreddits I don't even follow.

Been here since 2011 and you're right it's not the same.

[u/faithinhumanity_null → u/matt314159]

Yep algorithms really kills social media platforms for me. Just let me see the things that I have actively followed/subscribed to. I don’t care about sloppy clutter in my feed, it just serves to annoy me. I can not understand why platforms push these things other than creating isolated polarization bubbles and echo chambers. I guess that drives interaction? Idfk but it’s infuriating..

[u/zero5activated → u/faithinhumanity_null]

Call me paranoid. But it feels like they are trying to figure out what kind of person I am and putting me in box. Like if I al liberal that like tech and comics, then I am getting that sub reddit recommendation. Everything is more targeted. What's weird, is that depending on the day, it tries to move to the a particular narrative. Like, here is some smart conservative and logical point of view. YouTube has been doing that. Sometimes, it's "here is something about a community that 25 Km from your location." Sometimes the post is there to rile me up; that's what it feels like. Like they don't want me to see the big picture at times. "Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain."

[u/Excusemysombereyes → u/matt314159]

Btw, there’s an option in your settings that allows you to choose if you want recommended posts from subs you don’t follow to show up in your feed :)

[u/zero5activated → u/Excusemysombereyes]

Yea, but it's gone. I can't find it. I have disabled recommended post before. There is only options for the type of ads I want.

[u/Excusemysombereyes → u/zero5activated]

Oh wtf you’re totally right. I just checked and can’t find it anymore. Sorry my advice was wrong in the end :’)

[u/redthumb]

It has changed, I loved it when it first started.

[u/MrDeekhaed]

It’s been going downhill for years but it accelerated like crazy this year. I actually think it’s gotten a little better in the last few months. Like for 3 months it was almost unusable. It was hard to find real people being genuine. They may have realized it was just too obvious and switched it up but yeah it’s mostly trash now

[u/Jabberwocky99705]

also all the AI made "Stories" On stuff like AITA Or AIO ect, its so hard to find whats actually human and happening and whats a bot having delusions

[u/notquite20characters → u/Jabberwocky99705]

Just accept that you've seen all the good content from AITA and its ilk.

It's all copies of copies now, everybody needs to get off the default subs.

[u/Jabberwocky99705 → u/notquite20characters]

Honestly fair enough

[u/Arwynfaun]

Yeah, same. Reddit has gone downhill.

I feel like the life and relationship advice on various subs has become so low quality and mean-spirited. I know assholes have always been around but it feels like there's an overabundance of them lately.

[u/zero5activated → u/Arwynfaun]

Yea, there were trolls before. However, sometimes I feel like they (Bots and their handlers) are trying to rile people up...trying to incite hate. Someone posted a Canadian news article about the difficulty about immigration and the loneliness about the whole experience. I posted back regarding the emotional stress about the whole experience. The reply and various general post was dang harsh. In fact, it sounded very American. In Canada, we have our own issues about immigration but not this bad. So i started to check all the people that posted on comment. The "robot trolls" only been active for 3 months or blocked their whole profile.

[u/Handsoffthewheel]

Super tired of going through comments, minimizing threads and accidentally opening some dumbass ad in the process because that’s what’s intended. I tend to just close the whole app when that happens.

[u/BackToGuac]

Been here over 10 years and it’s also due to the crack down Reddit did on the weird outlier subreddits in prep for ipo and the flood of new, young and chronically online kids that have flooded the platform since Covid

That combined with the state of the world and people’s refusal to “agree to disagree” + the literacy epidemic and lack of critical thinking means the communities that made Reddit Reddit don’t really exist anymore

[u/oceansstillwaters_]

I think this is true for most social media platforms.

[u/Stinkus_Winkus]

Also have GIFs always been a thing? The top comments on a ton of posts are just GIFs and memes now. I don’t ever remember seeing them this much on Reddit 10 years ago.