Lmfao so glad I left that dumpster fire. r/all was he only way I ever browsed.
I mean it’s been heavily filtered for the better part of a decade. I never really minded some of the filtering, which at first was just quarantining the far right, but then nsfw subs got hidden, etc. Pretty quickly it was the old standard front page with a bit of chaos.
Also strangely enough, when I first started using Reddit around 2011, everyone just went straight to the frontage for everything, and the defaults in the front page dominated the app, it was probably around 2015-2016 that people actually pivoted to /r/all after the defaults of the front page were bland and stagnant, and from then on, the admins have taken steps to make /r/ all bland and stagnant too.
i just joined because of this. i was waiting for lemmys community to grow a bit larger first but r/all is literally the only reason i browse reddit at all. these idiots are playing themselves with this crap
Nice! Browsing by All here works great, just block the communities you aren’t interested in. I started out subscribing to ones I wanted but the smaller scale makes All decently readable. If there’s a community you wish was here feel free to start it!
Browse by All, Top 6 Hours gang rise up
Reporting for duty.
Heck yeah, even browse by New is manageable sometimes!
One of us
Welcome!
Welcome friend!
When I use reddit, it’s old.reddit exclusively. And old.reddit still has ‘all’ listed on the top.
I don’t use standard reddit, so I don’t know if ‘all’ was on the navigation pane before today or not, but it’s not there now. However, reddit.com/r/all still returns a feed, so maybe the address still works.
I think it says something about Reddit and their UX design that old.reddit.com still exists and is incredibly popular like five or six years after they introduced their sparkly air quote new Reddit
And nothing of value was lost
EDIT: After reading the comments in this thread I think I should elaborate…
The only thing that makes Reddit not X or Facebook are their niche communities. For years, Reddit corporate has been moving to homogenize them and shove them all into a single algorithmic slop feed that auto-adjusts to what you linger on like Tiktok. /r/all and /r/popular are basically just endless slop feeds of bots reposing engagement bait for people with brain rot to look at while they poop. But having slop and topic-based communities in a single feed invites those brainrotted people to jump into any community they are not a member of and vomit all over it without learning the rules/culture/etc.
Honestly I think focusing on and prioritizing their myriad small communities and not the people who want slop feed is a smart move for user retention. I still won’t go back there, but I think it’s a smart move.
Everyone was the “same” r/all before. They’re talking about “personal interests”.
They’re about to go full Tik Tok and show content as a function of your prior engagement.
I’m waiting for the day when reddit only works with their official mobile app. You have no feed anymore, just see one post at a time, and you can swipe if you want to see the next one
That’s about it for me then. I exclusively use r/all. Without being signed too.
I don’t care if I see content I don’t like nor care about. The point is to not be spoon fed some “algorithm”. And it lets me see the state of the platform as a whole.
Lol. I think someone’s going to teach you what an algorithm actually means but it isn’t going to be me.
Fuck every algorithm from what controls what I see on social media to the process of long division and the instructions on how to find my tax deduction!
What is the point of this reply but to publicly announce your smugness. Down voted for low content.
Wow, jesus. When I read this post’s title, I assumed it was being hyperbolic and that they just changed the name of /r/all or something.
Nope. The literal “Front Page of the Internet” that made Reddit what it is is gone. Staggering. What an unrecognizable, catastrophic shithole that place has turned into in the four years since
I’ve beenI was on it as an active user. (Edit: As in “I left four years ago”; didn’t recognize the dual meaning.)If you’ve only been there 4 years, you never even saw the site when it was good.
The new reddit design was a pure cancer. I still use old.reddit links because when I tick in settings to opt out of new design, reddit unticks it for me every single fucking month
Other way around. I left there four years ago having used it actively for effectively a decade. Sorry, that was bad phrasing on my part.
Me too
Remember when Reddit was open source? I can’t even remember when it was made closed source. Holy fuck spaz is a cunt.
This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.
I’ve been using the official app a couple times lately (out if curiousity). It’s ridiculous how little is left. Almost the enire feed is either advertisements, or algorithm. The plus side is that it is pretty obvious to distinguish them, but that makes that you can just scroll past 20+ posts without stopping. The feeling that gives me, almost always makes me close the app. Hilariously, I think this is exactly the opposite effect of what reddit engineers wanted to achieve with their enshitification.
I sincerely hope it is not their engineers that wanted this.
Somehow I doubt that they listen to their engineers at all regarding policy decisions.
I left reddit about the time they introduced /r/popular and I recall the announcement mentioning that they would remove /r/all eventually. It’s been a long time, but this was coming.
If lemmy wants to succeed, we need to follow suit and remove sorting by all! It’s the only way! /s
It does kind of frustrate me that they’re messing with people’s dopamine receptors, trapping them in reddit for a bit longer
It’s not addictive enough. You might see something that isn’t algorithmically tailored to enrage you or make you horny, and you’ll get bored for 3 seconds and navigate away from Reddit.
Tbf many main subs have been optimizing for horny in one fashion or another. It was just generating way too much interaction not to
Oldschool
coolhorny“Look how hot my Mom was guys, don’t you think she was so sexy?” - average oldschoolcool poster
Hey. Leave that one alone, I liked jorkin my peanits to people’s grandmas
Or just something we don’t want you to see.
Individualized censored bubbles for all of us, so nobody has the same world view.
Damn you beat me to it
edit: my comment was like 80% right but found out something that made me 20% wrong and… it’s not worth arguing what I was going for. Comment withdrawn.
The /r/all experiment has ended
Wtf lmao
Feels like a technique the Trump admin would use to justify something atrocious. “This thing that’s always been around? Yeah it was temporary and we’re finally getting rid of it! Nobody even used it!”
Users: /r/all is one of the cornerstones that make Reddit Reddit and a central part of its success
Corpo lizards: we have deemed /r/all is too hard to shape into a surveillance capitalism tool, so we’re gonna pretend it was a beta feature. Now consoom your Personalized Experience ™
Some retard CEO is drooling somewhere over the excel spreadsheet.
There are better ways to make this comment.
r/all is too generalized to push targeted advertising on it so every user who spends time on there should in reddits eyes be somewhere else where they can be milked for cash easier
It also trends much more political than /r/popular. (Low quality liberal bait like “DAE think trump bad???” most of the time, but still). Their explicit goal with their “alternative” feeds was to de-rank the political discussions in favor of 9gag-esque slop.
When a big political event happened, you could go to /r/all and be blasted with tens of discussions about it, or go to /r/popular and watch staged animal rescue videos or whatever.
Now I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy necessarily, but it certainly is yet another major loss for free political speech online.
edit: I mistakenly throught they were pushing /r/popular still, but they’re working towards just a “personalized” feed. eh, nevermind my point.
Fortunately a toward the end of the post they tell people how to delete Reddit accounts!
Amazing shit. Love how the hapless community manager has to be all “decision won’t change but you can shout at the wind for all the help it will do” because they literally have nothing else to say about it
“The r/all experiment has concluded and the decision was made to remove r/all. I’m so sorry. =/ Reddit is leaning toward simplifying your experience to make it more personalized and relevant to your subscriptions and interests. I know some of you have some pretty strong feelings about this and I totally get that! Feel free to leave comments on this post. I will continue to pass along constructive feedback to that team.”
Haha.
Don’t worry folks, it was not a basic feature since day one, it was an experiment!
The way it’s worded, it does sound like /r/all is the experiment they’re referring to.
But I think it makes more sense if they’re referring to an experiment involving /r/all. I remember reading months ago that they wanted to remove it, maybe they are referring to an A/B testing experiment (remove it for some people and not for others) there.
They said they wanted to remove r/popular a few months ago.
But it looks like they were referring to r/all this entire time.
Yeah, that makes sense. They had an experiment to see if they could increase ad revenue by removing the all-feed, and now it’s concluded and it turns out that yes indeed, enshittification rolls on.
I cannot imagine staying on a service that is openly admitting running experiments on its users to make them as addicted as possible. I guess it’s a boiling frog kind of deal.
No, it is clarified within the thread that /r/all will stop working “after the rollout is complete”
You’re replying to the wrong comment there. This isn’t about whether they’ll remove it or not.
Apparently I am, meant to reply to the person pointing their browser there , sorry
I never subscribed to subs. I read all and individual subs.
I got permabanned from Reddit for talking mad shit about AI and saying what I think should happen to ICE and Trump, so I guess I didn’t care. Pretty funny though.
I got perma’d for saying a straight-up sieg-heiling neo-Nazi harassing a Jewish couple in an American suburb should have his nose broken so he can worry about his own for a change.
At first I was kind of bewildered having had used it for nearly 10 years, but it was much better this way. I try to keep Aesop’s famous sour grapes fable in mind when I say things like this, but no: every time I end up on Reddit for some reason, I’m dumbfounded anyone could use it in its current condition. Even beyond the visual vomit that is the UI – before I left, mine was a very “Reddit circa 2015 frozen in time” experience thanks to RiF and RES – it feels like iFunny when I realized it was just backwash from other sites like Reddit and left it.
The content is so painfully insipid. It’s all something from fifteen million variations of “/r/damnthatsinteresting”, a repost bot, a dogshit tabloid discussing US politics, “ChatGPT writes a clear-cut ragebait story and users tell the OP if they’re justified”, screenshots from Twitter on their dozenth round of compression, or TikTok’s backwash in the form of v.reddit.
A lot of that stuff is here too, but at least it’s small enough here that real human interaction happens in the comments regardless, and it’s much worse there. I used to get on Reddit for an hour and feel honest-to-goodness enriched by the experience. I felt like I learned new things and saw new, cogent perspectives. I feel utterly hollow on the rare occasion I check Reddit these days, like I just got out of a soulless spin cycle designed to trap me by shutting off my brain.
This is kind of my feelings at this point. The vast majority of Reddit right now is careening towards Facebook levels of bot activity. Be it repost bots, Russian trolls, what have you…it’s just really hard to pick out what’s a real human at this point. Just so much repetitive shit. I will genuinely miss some of the special interest, more niche communities over there. The equivalents on Lemmy are still kind of ghost towns at the moment. But yeah, at first I was angry that I got permabanned (for telling a MAGA that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them). But the more I step back and assess the situation, I’m happy those dumbfucks did the job for me. Fuck Reddit. Which is sad, because it used to be pretty fucking amazing.
Redreader still seems to be pulling posts into a collection like r/all. I have had some theories about how it works and have always used it to have an uncurated experience.
I’m thinking it isn’t opening r/all in reddit’s API and it instead kind of builds that selection of posts from everywhere on redreader’s end. I can’t prove it but the fact it’s working now seems to play into this. Maybe I’m delusional.
Either way, fingers crossed reddit doesn’t get sick of blind people getting to control their own content stream and boot it off the API. Would pretty much fit the bill for their shit
edit: They’re actually wanting to kill /r/popular as well which invalidates points I was making, comment withdrawn.
No sweat. I don’t think redreader has a popular filter so I wasn’t aware of it
