This isn’t limited to the Reddit app. You can see it on the desktop and mobile website too.
Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More hilarity: as of about a week ago, it appears the reddit algorithm has also started boosting posts with negative karma on their horrible mobile app. Guessing it’s a move towards ‘negative engagement’.
vahtos@programming.dev 1 month ago
akvgergo@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
So that’s what happened?! I rarely come here, but last weekend was so bad that I started updating my subscribed communities here.
I thought I interacted with too many downvoted posts, and screwed up what reddit thought were my main interests. Guess I was expecting too much from reddit…
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
At reddit, line must go up. So user experience must go down.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have to imagine that when some c-level suit saw that term in his moth-eaten copy of “Social Media for Dummies,” I don’t think it was intended to be taken quite so flagrantly visibly literally…