Feed turns to junk

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1gcngzz/feed_turns_to_junk/

created by elkannon on 26/10/2024 at 15:23 UTC

10 upvotes, 4 top-level comments (showing 4)

Why does the feed just become good and suddenly turn to junk?

I know we should all just delete it. But over the last couple weeks I actually said to someone, damn, reddit feed is actually good again! New interesting relevant things, etc.

Within two days of that, my feed suddenly gets repopulated with every sub on the planet that I have no interest in, including almost all of the ones I’ve clicked “don’t show me this”.

To me it looks like it was repopulated so I can scroll more and thus view 6x more ads. Probably they need to hit certain ad revenue metrics soon. I did not change any settings.

I don’t want to scroll endlessly and wade through the dumbest irrelevant stuff on the planet. So I go through the work of taking off all the posts from random cities and subjects I’m never interested in, just to reset the feed.

In response, now all I get is 4-day old shit I’ve seen a million times, repeat posts, nothing interesting, etc. So then the option is to still scroll endlessly to find anything interesting. It feels like a punishment for not accepting abuse of my feed. What gives?

Comments

Comment by nikfra at 26/10/2024 at 16:09 UTC

10 upvotes, 3 direct replies

What do you mean by feed? I only get shown content from the subs I subscribe to and obviously I haven't clicked "do not show" on those.

Comment by InspiredInSpace at 26/10/2024 at 16:42 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Reddit activity lowers dramatically on weekends. News websites have less news and bot accounts are not as active. Therefore algorithm becomes less selective. I even see highly upvoted posts from 3-4 days ago on sundays.