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Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot (piunikaweb.com)
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Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I found out today that they have removed r/all from the mobile platforms.

The one unifying feed... Heaven for it folk experience consensus media or have a shared experience.

By slicing it all up they can tweak individual algorithms to push more jank than ever. No longer do they have to game the system to get AstroTurfed Ads on the front page.

Actually, didn't they used to call themselves the "front page of the internet"? How does that work if no one sees the same page?

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think most people unsubscribe from r/all anyway and subscribe to subs related to their favorite hobbies and games and work related info. Most of my frontpage is for video games I'm currently playing, programs I'm currently using and odd fun subs like moviemistakes or maybemaybemaybe. I wish I could do that here.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And that's all cool... But it is weird to take that choice away from users.

Much like here, a quick browse of all introduces me to a wider world with different concerns. It's how I find stuff.

And I'm pretty sure what you do is possible here... What are you having a problem with?

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I can't figure out how to unsub from the Lemmy version of r/all. So I'm getting latestagecapitalism, politics, politicalmemes, various communist instances. 80% of what's on my page is politics. I'm not interested in that.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What client are you using?

On Voyager there is a tab at the top to switch between all and "home". Home is just the subs you subscribe to.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm using the website. After what you said, I checked and it has Subscribed/Local/All at the top of the page. That's really nice. I just started using Lemmy so I haven't completely figured it out yet. I use old reddit, so it might be set up the same way as new reddit but I wouldn't have known.

Edit:

What are hidden posts?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago

Forgot fuckcars. Not a day goes by that I don't see it.