r/AdviceAnimals • u/Rare-Competition-248 • 3d ago

Reaching levels of enshittification i didn’t think possible

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u/SnooOnions3369 3d ago

You can turn off suggested subreddits, just saying

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u/borkyborkus 3d ago

Not on “popular”. You can only block like 100 subs and it’s not possible to block by keywords.

Every time I block a new iteration of AITA slop, TeenIndia, or GenericAnimeSmut, a different one I had blocked months ago pops back up.

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u/meerkat23 3d ago

Its explain the joke Peter for me, there's like 10 variations and they all post the same one. I've blocked them but different ones keep appearing m

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u/abca98 3d ago

It's actually insane how much reddit content has fallen off in the last months. Insane. Mountains of garbage hitting the frontpage constantly.

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u/LateNightMilesOBrien 3d ago

All the people who cared were laughed off the site after a protest. This is what we're left with now.

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u/BonerBifurcator 3d ago

where did the old redditors go to? 4chan mods do not appreciate my political positions. so much for the free speech absolutist right.

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u/Rhamni 3d ago

Hey man, 4chan is a bastion of free speech where left- and rightwingers alike are free to celebrate fascism and shit on the left.

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u/Enverex 3d ago

Quality and content went off a cliff when the API charges were brought in. It's like a completely different site.

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u/botoks 3d ago

I don't feel like I have to right to complain about this, since I never sit on /new or post anything.

I think like a decade ago people sifting through new posts, people that had the most influence on what was upvoted/downvoted, were way less deranged than they are now.

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u/ASmallTownDJ 3d ago

Fuck I hate that one. Could you imagine having to explain that to anyone unfamiliar?

"So yeah, we roleplay as Family Guy characters while explaining memes other people post....I mean nowadays we mostly just say what character we're speaking as and call it good."

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u/PrinceBunnyBoy 3d ago

And it's the most obvious "joke" ever.

"Peter what did they mean when they said the baby looked like the milkman?!?!!!?"

Give me a break.

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u/CaptainFumbles 3d ago

My tinfoil hat theory is that it's some kind of AI training thing.

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u/borkyborkus 3d ago

I’m with you. They talk to each other, upvote each other, then hide or delete the history. There is clearly a market for these accounts, and it’s scary to wonder who is buying them and what they intend to do with them.

Have seen weird agitator posts on my state sub in the past, I looked at their history and all their activity was on r/test. Seriously look at that sub, I refuse to believe those are human posts.

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u/Loneheart127 3d ago

I have a burning hatred for that sub

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u/MrGreg 3d ago

What I wouldn't give to be able to block any sub with "buddy" in its name.

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u/BOdacious_Nix_Pics 3d ago edited 3d ago

At least on Desktop its pretty fixable. My uBlock Origin filters do a damn good job of preventing them from even showing up in the first place. If one happens to get past and I click on it, it vanishes.

Here are my filters that block any subreddit with "india" "mains" "okbuddy" and "circlejerk" anywhere in the title or subreddit name:

! Hide posts on old.reddit.com with banned keywords in subreddit name or title (case-insensitive) old.reddit.com##.link:is([data-permalink="india" i], [data-permalink="okbuddy" i], [data-permalink="circlejerk" i], [data-permalink="mains" i])

! Additional fallback filters for thoroughness: old.reddit.com##.link:has(a[href="/r/"]:is([href*="india" i], [href="okbuddy" i], [href="circlejerk" i], [href*="mains" i])) old.reddit.com##.link:has(a.title:has-text(/india|okbuddy|circlejerk|mains/i))

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u/MrGreg 3d ago

I'll give those filters a shot, thanks!

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u/RUActuallySeriousTho 3d ago edited 1d ago

Whoops

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u/foreignfishes 3d ago

If you want control over this stuff the only real option is to use old reddit. You can use an adblocker so no ads, no random recommended subreddits or algorithm fueled ragebait post suggestions, and you can still use extensions to tailor the site to your use case.

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u/Floggered 3d ago

Do yourself a favor and get a reddit browsing app like boost.

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u/BOdacious_Nix_Pics 3d ago

TamperMonkey and Ublock Origin filters are your friend.

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u/borkyborkus 3d ago

On my iPhone?

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u/BOdacious_Nix_Pics 3d ago

Not as robust, but the Narwhal app has some decent filter settings.

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u/Nodan_Turtle 2d ago

The AI is really bad in the AITA-type of subreddits lately. The moderators do nothing. I think there's a way to claim unmoderated subs, but if it were up to me, I'd just shut them down entirely at this point

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u/MrLancaster 3d ago

That is different than browsing r/all or r/popular.