List of threads detailing the issue
- https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1frcdxs/it_looks_like_reddit_is_currently_trying_new_ways/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1fqmwid/has_the_reddit_algorithm_recently_changed/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1fmo04b/reddit_is_purposely_pushing_political_posts/
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This is kind of a huge turning point.
It would mean reddit is discarding the biggest thing that makes it different from all the other algo-driven “engagement”-fueled social platforms.
It would mean reddit is discarding the biggest thing that makes it different from all the other algo-driven “engagement”-fueled social platforms.
Yup. And it’s a bad trade in its case - because even if it leads to more engagement, it makes it too similar to considerably larger platforms, so there’s no point staying in Reddit instead of, say, Facebook.
When I worked for Lowe’s recently, I had the distinct impression the company was trying to evolve to be more similar to Amazon, including:
- Less staff in stores
- Less inventory in stores; logistics to be handled from independent central locations
- More focus on online sales
To me the idea of trying to become more similar to a giant like Amazon is foolish.
It’s like complaining that you never get to step into the ring with Mohammad Ali.
Becoming more like the competition might make sense, if you completely blind yourself to the fact that the customers you do have are the people who don’t like the competition.
This looks like a way to ruin reddit in the long run, half the relevant content will make it half as attractive to visit.
Well, you can’t break something that’s already broken.
I even set a different sorting but it still defaults to a weird sorting. Sort of like best/top
Why does it say BLOCKED in front of the link old.reddit.com?
The link works fine here btw.I think that Reddit blocked LW from automatically retrieving the info.
Ah yes the API shit probably.
Thanks.
Just new Redditors speculating with anecdotes
Just new Redditors speculating with anecdotes
That’s inaccurate given that 2/3 of the OPs and a lot of the commenters have really old (8yo+) accounts.
8 years is by no means “really old”!!
In this context it is - it means that the user saw how Reddit used to be, and is likely informed enough to have a good guess on what’s going on.
(Some accounts there are 12, 13, even 15yo.)
It’s all speculation and it been going on forever.
Every single every example is “hey has any anyone else noticed” With some speculation about the algorithm. No one knows anything, but it’s presented here fact.
Where’s your critical thinking ?
All I’m asking is for something a bit better than “I swear it’s true bro my cousin works at Nintendo”
I was focusing mostly on your incorrect claim about account ages. The reliability of the information (speculation vs. solid info) is another can of worms.
The reason why you see mostly speculation is because nobody knows how the algo work, except people inside Reddit itself. The most that people can do is to analyse patterns, and come up with a hypothesis explaining it; and while doing so by subjective means is by no means optimal, it is better than nothing.
Where’s your critical thinking ?
Critical thinking is to neither change the goalposts once people contradict your claim, nor to conflate hypotheses with gullibleness-based argumentation (“I swear it’s true bro”).
You’re argument is that humans can’t discern patterns from noise?
If you were on reddit even for a brief period of time you can actually click through to reddit and see that the experience has changed.
People who want extraordinary evidence think that the claim is extraordinary but never question whether their own understanding is limited.
If requiring something more than “Hmmm seems strange” from a handful of Redditors is somehow “extraordinary evidence” to you - then yes, that’s what’s required to give this anecdote - offered to us as fact - a bit of credibility.
It’s not a big ask, and I didn’t expect you have such obvious difficulties, but there you go.
You’re deliberately ignoring a video link and talking past people trying to point that out. You don’t want to watch a video on youtube?
