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Can we talk about the reddit design (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Tolos@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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It's bad. I'm not just saying that, I have tolerated a lot of site ux changes that other people hated (Slashdot beta?!), but the site is so much worse now. All the posts in r/help are about how bad it is. I haven't seen an official announcement so I'll try to summarize the obvious changes:

some style differences. Normally not a big deal, but up/down vote seem more cramped on my tiny phone screen for post listings.
my feed is full of communities I don't care about. Reddit is "helpfully" trying to introduce me to new communities, but I purposefully didn't join r/pics, thanks. There are soooo many suggested posts none of which I'm interested in.
if you open a post, the link back to the community is even smaller and harder to click than before.
posts now include an ad section of "other posts you may like", which seem to be popular posts that I already read in the past. Thanks but I already read them, why are you suggesting them?
(edit to add) actually the "other posts you may like" includes random links to content on other subs I'm not interested in. It's like the developers had to implement 10 different "features" to cross link posts and this is the best they could do in 4 hours.

I closed the site at this point. Share your own bad experience below

Average Lemmy Active Users by Month in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I didn't realize commenting was an important metric. I check lemmy everyday but rarely have something useful to say.

Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds in c/movies@lemmy.world

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I can tell you haven't researched this at all, because that's one of the first data dimensions controlled for. Random first google result https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690810/

Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds in c/movies@lemmy.world

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The younger generation is having less sex despite abstinence only education, not because of it. We have multiple studies showing "abstinence only" education is one of the worst ways to prevent teen pregnancy, yet religious conservatives continue to push for this because they would rather control women than lower teen pregnancy.

Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Republicans do not care about freedom or personal liberty. Texas is pretty red with the exception of the major cities. The majority of the state is roughly in favor of these decisions.

Lemmy is losing users in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel personally attacked

AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Do you have to add "zoinks" at the end when you say it wasn't me?

Coming to you soon... in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Tolos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Eh, lemmy -> reddit is not without scaling issues, but reddit doesn't upload 10s of terabytes of video every day, much smaller infrastructure required than youtube.