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I Just Discovered Reddit Has Subscribed Me too Subreddits I Never Joined. Hell, Some of These I've Never Visited (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by Bob@midwest.social to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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First off, yes, I'm getting rid of my account, but I decided to have a look around on the official app and

  1. It's hot garbage
  2. I'm subscribed to a bunch of subs I've never even interacted with before in my life. What gives? Did they just sign me up for shit without asking? They sent me emails after promising they wouldn't, they've lied about a lot of stuff, but every time I'm surprised they're such dicks for some reason.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yep they like to "suggest" a ton of garbage at you that an algorithm thinks will piss you off and get you to engage more.

The app is even worse. It's only whatever the algorithm wants to feed you with no choice at all. You can manually go to a specific subreddit, but that's it.