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Reddit Is Getting a 'For You' Feed (theverge.com) 31

Posted by BeauHD from the big-shift dept.
Reddit is overhauling its homepage with separate "For You" and "Following" feeds, with the former combining posts from subscribed communities and algorithmic recommendations based on users' interests and activity. The Verge reports: It's a big shift for the platform, but not an entirely surprising one, as Reddit hasn't been shy about wanting to switch up the homepage. Earlier this year, the company announced it would be deprecating r/all, which surfaced posts that were popular across the platform, as part of its "ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization." "This new feed experience is a first step in helping drive discovery that leads to something novel and relevant -- an idea, a connection, a unique perspective, or even a new interest," Reddit says. "A more human internet is not just something you sit back and watch, it is something you find value in and want to participate in."

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  • The Reddit algorithm is really weird anyway. It is an illogical mix of "recent" and "popular" that sometimes includes things that are neither recent, nor popular.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by shanen ( 462549 )

      Not just me, eh? And yet it is a "big" website so it must be doing something right. My fault for failing to detect it?

      I've poked at Reddit occasionally for many years. Sometimes just my curiosity about "interactive communication" websites and other times because a link to Reddit appears in search results. Cannot recall a single case where I learned anything useful via Reddit. My theory is that there must be something useful there, but I just can't find it. Or perhaps returning to your FP theme, whatever alg

      • Like most websites, Reddit is on a downward spiral. It got great, then compromised everything that made it that way for money. But the goose doesn't die all at once, so I guess there's some money to be made there before it crashes and burns.

  • I used to browse Reddit occasionally, even after getting banned from the entire site because I insulted a mod who had insulted me.

    But now I get redirected there and it tries to force me to use an fucking app to READ what was linked to ?
    Fuck off and die, Reddit.

    We need an Open alternative.
    • Its called a browser like Brave. You can read and subscribe to whatever threads you want.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nomadic ( 141991 )

      Moderators are a special kind of special.

      I got banned from the entire site for "circumventing" subreddit bans, which was because some of my alts were fed subreddits by the algorithm that I was not supposed to be on.

  • It continues (Score:5, Interesting)

    by phantomfive ( 622387 ) on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:29PM (#66399728) Journal
    The enshittification continues. Ruin things in the name of profit.

    The uncomfortable truth is that a significant portion of the population prefers the enshittified feed, otherwise it wouldn't be profitable.

  • I pulled the plug when my last device was redirected to login to see the "old" version. I'm not creating an account and don't like the "new" site. It was tough since checking was a habit but I've developed others since.

    I only want to sit back and watch reddit, not participate in it.

    And algorithmic recommendations are mostly meant to drive eyes to what they want or are paid for you to see, with just enough of what you actually want to not leave completely.

  • This new feed experience is a first step in helping drive discovery that leads to something novel and relevant

    True. ...in the same way a subway flasher "drives discovery" of novel content for female passengers.

  • Some people like that, and that's fine. But for those people who don't, don't force-default to the "for you" section, default to their preference.

  • Screw Reddit (Score:4, Insightful)

    by RamenJunkie ( 2509554 ) on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:13PM (#66399796) Homepage
    Man it's gotten so terrible in less than a year. I swear they rolled out some AI moderation at the start because I ended up banned after 15+ years and it's all the same ahitpost I always did. But hey, I had other accounts, but then dropping /r/all, probably because stories about how trash the US administration is were all over that feed. They are apparently dumping RSS feeds too, and block new and returning users from using old.reddit. Now this stupid For You nonsense because they are desperate to get people using communities besides the 5-6 actually useful small communities people still come for.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      the AI modding started early this year, there was a huge uptick in [Post removed] lying around, you'd see a couple a month then suddenly there was a dozen each week, it wasn't too bright and wordfiltered a lot, the western version of saying Tiananmen Square 1989 and seeing your post "moderated" in less than a second

      conspiracy opinion, it was deliberately overtuned to help cull accounts still using old.reddit which they've longed to throw out but was heavily relied on by actual moderators (their tools, speci

    • and it's all the same ahitpost

      Maybe they just took 15 years to get their moderation system right if all you ever did was ahitpost.

    • I keep getting banned, and I don't even know why. Then log in with an old account and they ban that, for 'attempting to circumvent the first ban.' Do that a couple times and the weeklong ban because a perma-ban for "repeatedly" doing all the above.

      It's such a joke, they go hyperbolic running some story that Elon Musk banned somebody from Twitter. Then they ban like crazy at the drop of a hat.

  • Ugh, no. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ebunga ( 95613 ) on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:31PM (#66399828)

    The whole point of reddit is that it's Not That. If people wanted a facebook shovel feed they would be on facebook.

    • Reddit was like that once. But I've noticed lately the "front page" (be it r/popular or r/all) is dominated by "Let's show someone doing something cool and add a saccharine stock soundtrack to it" type videos.

      I think it lost its soul when they did the API thing that lead to so many leaving. Moderation has seriously deteriorated as people interested in the subs they mod no longer mod them, real communities have mostly died out, and what's left is auto-moderated generic subs that bots post to dominating the s

  • This is another facebook echochamber in the making. I wish more people were on the lemmy

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by GoJays ( 1793832 )
      Yup. I have been phasing out Reddit over the last few years as it has been on a downward spiral for awhile. In the past, I would only ever use Reddit to look at sub reddits that I subscribed to and found interesting. I don't need things recommended to me, if I want to find something I will search it out. This is just another way to spoon feed people mindless drivel and/or push content on them that trigger them emotionally. Enshitification strikes again.

  • I'm surprised that Reddit, of all places, is emulating twitter?
    As far as I can tell "for you" is just a firehose of shitty people that disagree with me politically.
    On the other hand "following" is (I guess?) derived from the posts I've actually followed, and that's a firehose of shitty people that I ostensibly agree with, politically, but clearly don't in nearly every other respect.

    I think the intent is that one feed will engage me angrily, while the other will engage me affirmatively.

    In fact, together they

  • Their current feed on mobile is a mix of stuff you follow and stuff they think you are interested in based on posts you interact with.

    Which basically means that you are shit scared to interact with anything that isnt from a group you have already joined, because once you do, your feed is filled with posts from subs that are minutely related to the topic you clicked on.

    For example, if I click on a post which contains an interesting local event story without checking what sub its from, and its from a local to

    • All I want is Twitters feed from before 2022 - the one which just shows posts from people or groups you follow, and thats it. Why cant I have that?

      You literally can now, that was one of the first things changed by Elon.

      Go to Twitter and click on the "Following" tab. It even remains selected between visits, so you don't have to see the AI shovelware unless you click on the other tab.

      • Well, firstly I had a “follow only” feed when I quit Twitter in 2022 - I just want that for Reddit.

        There were short periods when Twitter tried to make the algorithmic feed the default, but they always switched back to your personal feed being the default after outcry. So Musk hasnt fixed anything there, it was always there.

        Secondly, no, I wont be using Twitter ever again. Or whatever its called these days.

  • Reddit links used to be in the top ten links on Google when you searched for device driver issues. In fact, that's probably how many people came across the site. I certainly did.

    Around ten years ago, during the trans/SJW/normie wars they hired one Ellen Pao. And they kicked out a popular employee.

    Then their mods collectively went nazi.

    I don't even know what is good there any more.

  • managing their little subreddits like little dictators, banning everyone who's opinion they do not like.

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