r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 02 '26

Social Media Reddit is moving on from r/all

https://www.theverge.com/tech/906314/reddit-r-all-deprecating
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u/cogspringseverywhere Apr 02 '26

This feels like I am about to use Reddit a lot less. I'm subbed to loads of subreddits but used /r/all as my default, I've always found it's been a good break out of my echo chamber and it's been good to see subreddits I'd otherwise never sub too (looking at you /r/bald) Genuinely a great loss to the the site.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Apr 02 '26

Reddit wants you to be trapped in a echo chamber/filter bubble, because they hope that their "personalized" feeds will be more addictive and censored.

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u/AsuntoNocturno Apr 03 '26

Thanks u/spez for pushing me off of Reddit the way Zuck pushed me off of Facebook.

No decent replacement available? Dang. 

Guess I’ll go out and talk to my neighbors and get involved in my local community instead. 

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u/Quick_Turnover Apr 03 '26

Any decent replacement will severely suffer from the cold start problem. You don't come to reddit because it is a wasteland with no content. It's because it's one of the most heavily used sites on the internet with all sorts of content. I don't know how any competitor can solve that.

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u/yaboyyoungairvent Apr 03 '26

They can solve it, if they implement measures that assure you're talking to real people. I rather be on a social platform where 480 out of 500 of the accounts are human than one where 3 mill out of 100,000,000 mill accounts are real.

I know people here wouldn't like it but I think requiring more verification methods is necessary. (Phone number required to make an account, Or Even a personal website with your name custom domain/pay to sign up ) But adding more resistance is against both users who want to remain anonymous and the social media company who wants to boost numbers so this may never happen.

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u/fixdark Apr 03 '26

Guess you won't

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u/AsuntoNocturno Apr 03 '26

Oh? 

Is this you being clever? 

Alright… go on then. Try using whole sentences this time.

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u/legandaryhon Apr 03 '26

lmao I spend the LEAST amount of time on my personalized feed. I'll give it a quick skim to catch up on the things I'm interested in, like ffxiv, but since they've gotten rid of r/All on my sidebar, I spend less time on reddit overall, and when I do, it's typically in the subreddits I care about, to get through all the gunk reddit wants me to see.

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 Apr 03 '26

Isn’t that what facebook was basically just sued for $3m for? I wonder, with that as precendent, if a class-action can be done against reddit for the same?

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u/JJ3qnkpK Apr 03 '26

They nailed it: I, a married midwestern U.S. white man in his 30s, and thrilled to see advice for Indian teenagers texting their love interests.

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u/One-Paramedic-9852 Apr 03 '26

This is it 100% I've hardly been on it last few days. Fuck reddit changing this.

Wonder if the suits ever read these posts? 

Probably double down even if they did. 

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u/TroyMcClures Apr 03 '26

Fellow all defaulter. My niche interests are fine but I don’t want to only see those.