When I do a search on some topic and Reddit comes up as a choice, it's my last option. I feel guilty when I do choose it. I've drunk the fediverse coolaide. It tastes good.
While the overall amount of users barely changed, the drop in new posts and comments after July is actually rather striking according to subredditstats.com. r/AskReddit, the most active subreddit on the site went from 70k comments and 5k posts per day down to 15k comments and 2k posts. r/news dropped 5k/100 -> 1k/20. r/aww went from 3k/300 -> 300/50. r/AmItheAsshole went from 30k daily comments down to 5k. r/meirl dropped from 350 posts a day down to like 80.
It turns out there is a huge overlap between people using the superior 3rd party apps to access your site and the users that bother to actually create and interact on that site. Who would have known?
This is literally the worst. I hate it for example on Instagram, you press on some K-pop post just to cringe a bit, and the aLgOrYtHiM thinks I now want to see K-pop 24/7
The company noted that ad-limiting controls will possibly show you fewer ads from mentioned categories if the toggles are turned off, but won’t possibly filter out all ads. Reddit justified this by saying it uses manual tagging and machine learning to label ads, so there is a chance that it is not 100% accurate.
Because of course they use manual tagging, so that Huffman can get in there and make sure that people see what he wants them to, even if they don't.
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