Is your reddit home feed governed by some algorithm (other than the standard upvotes and downvotes)
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Pechente@feddit.de 9 months ago
The thing with mostodon and lemmy is that the feed is not algorithmicly tailored to you with the goal to get you to spend as much time as possible. That’s why these experiences are usually more relaxed and fulfilling than what the big players offer.
killerinstinct101@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pechente@feddit.de 9 months ago
Not my Apollo feed but I remember people complaining about posts from certain subs they didn’t like in their feed, so I’m guessing the official app does that?
devilstrip@midwest.social 9 months ago
I’ve always assumed it was due to the size of Reddit. I don’t care about anime at all but because lots of other people do it reaches the front page. This is why I became very liberal with the block button to tailor the feed.
eldavi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
i find myself missing 99% of what i used to get out of social media and i’m forcing myself to see that as a good thing so that i can find more productive uses of my time; it’s crazy to learn that all of the content i’m addicted to is completely dominated by reddit and doesn’t exist anywhere else in the entirety of the world wide web.
Sallal@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Name of the wind was great. The only reason I didn’t start the second book was the Author’s refusal of releasing the third and “final” book. I prefer cutting things on my terms rather than being forced to. it sounds stupid but at least I feel in control that way lol.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Reddit wasn’t tailored to the user, the user tailored it to themselves (unless they were fool enough to use the official app).
It really is just that there’s less content here, and the content there is isn’t sorted particularly well via Hot. It’s a WIP
veroxii@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How the Best and Hot algorithms work on Reddit is completely up to Reddit. They 100% tailor it to the user.
Boinketh@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Well Reddit still gets to decide which posts/subs to show over other ones based on voting and engagement metrics.
zeograd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In the past months, I was getting so many “you will probably like…”
No, I don’t. Reddit, you’re showing me irrelevant subs which prevent me from browsing the feed I curated.
It was so annoying…
Boinketh@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’ve been a 3PA user for years, so that never really happened to me.
eldavi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
i never saw the “you’ll probably like…” messages; but i saw them in others’ screenshots and it made me wonder why reddit’s algorithm(s) didn’t show it to me; i suspect it was because 99% of my subs were porn adjacent and they didn’t want to advertise that.