First off, yes, I’m getting rid of my account, but I decided to have a look around on the official app and

  1. It’s hot garbage
  2. I’m subscribed to a bunch of subs I’ve never even interacted with before in my life. What gives? Did they just sign me up for shit without asking? They sent me emails after promising they wouldn’t, they’ve lied about a lot of stuff, but every time I’m surprised they’re such dicks for some reason.

Has anyone else experienced this?

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Sounds about their speed. I haven’t been on Reddit for a couple weeks and I don’t miss it one bit, just a fading memory. My sign-in instance is running Lemmy 0.18.1-rc.5 and it looks beautiful on desktop browser using the new compact theme. Then they fixed a whole bunch of stuff. The 0.18.1 official release is going to be brilliant, way better looking than Reddit.

  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, they’ve always subscribed every new user to like 50 default subs, but I never noticed until I tried the official app because they never showed up on my third party app’s list of subs I’m subbed to. And they never even showed up on my homepage… Subs like /r/videos and whatnot.

    What subs are you alledging they subscribed you to?

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      1 year ago

      I got rid of all of them just out of spite, but they were generic fairly large ones. r/parenting r/survival r/aww

      I think you’re right. It’s kind of interesting that the third party apps knew well enough to ignore those subs.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Reddit autosubscribes new accounts to “popular” subreddits to help fill the front page. Go make a brand new account, you’ll likely see the same thing.

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      Ah, that’s probably it. Another user is saying that third party apps ignored those subs for you.

      I took a look around at the rest of the app. It’s amazing how they managed to turn Reddit into as much of a generic social media website as they possibly could.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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    1 year ago

    Yep they like to “suggest” a ton of garbage at you that an algorithm thinks will piss you off and get you to engage more.

    The app is even worse. It’s only whatever the algorithm wants to feed you with no choice at all. You can manually go to a specific subreddit, but that’s it.

  • Ph03n1x443@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    DUDE I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME

    I genuinely thought I went on a amnesiac adventure subbing to shit I didn’t know existed

    Thank you for this lmao