It’s not addictive enough. You might see something that isn’t algorithmically tailored to enrage you or make you horny, and you’ll get bored for 3 seconds and navigate away from Reddit.
Before I stopped using reddit, I was having this issue where it would literally show me the exact same post several times (like, not a crosspost, straight up the very same post) and it would get worse the further you scrolled. By page 5 or so, it’d be nothing but posts you’d already been shown. I just checked and it’s still doing it. I don’t know if this was just me or not, but it made it a lot easier to stop visiting.
edit: my comment was like 80% right but found out something that made me 20% wrong and… it’s not worth arguing what I was going for. Comment withdrawn.
It’s not addictive enough. You might see something that isn’t algorithmically tailored to enrage you or make you horny, and you’ll get bored for 3 seconds and navigate away from Reddit.
Before I stopped using reddit, I was having this issue where it would literally show me the exact same post several times (like, not a crosspost, straight up the very same post) and it would get worse the further you scrolled. By page 5 or so, it’d be nothing but posts you’d already been shown. I just checked and it’s still doing it. I don’t know if this was just me or not, but it made it a lot easier to stop visiting.
That’s Reddit’s new “Read It Again” feature.
Tbf many main subs have been optimizing for horny in one fashion or another. It was just generating way too much interaction not to
Oldschool
coolhorny“Look how hot my Mom was guys, don’t you think she was so sexy?” - average oldschoolcool poster
Hey. Leave that one alone, I liked jorkin my peanits to people’s grandmas
Damn you beat me to it
Or just something we don’t want you to see.
Individualized censored bubbles for all of us, so nobody has the same world view.
edit: my comment was like 80% right but found out something that made me 20% wrong and… it’s not worth arguing what I was going for. Comment withdrawn.