They completely disregard that, the recommendation system really has its own ways to do things you didn’t ask for in the first place. Also forums as big as reddit are not manageable without fine tuned mod tools. They do not have those. Never fully implemented.
Comment on Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Unlike Twitter or other news sites, reddit already has a sorting algorithm: voting, and personalized feeds defeats the entire point of reddit, since now everybody gets a different front page, which is good for selling targeted ads but bad for promoting genuine engagement where people naturally talk to each other about what everyone wants to talk about.
I don’t think the leaderships at reddit understands their own product at all, but that’s not a surprise at this point.
By the way, anyone notice that circlejerks are pretty rare here compared to reddit?
AdamantRatPuncher@lemmy.world 9 months ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
The things that happen on each kind of online platform are to a large extent a result of how the platform is structured. Lemmy and Reddit are structured in pretty much exactly the same way.
As the userbase of Lemmy grows, it will become more like Reddit, whether people like it or not. I wish we had a social media platform structured like a traditional phpBB-style web forum, with thread bumping and all.