Dear User,
We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.
As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.
More details are available in our announcement and help center.
These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.
Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.
It sucked going from Boost to the official Reddit app and this I don’t really care about but what got me to come here today was my feeds in the official Reddit app have been stale for the last several days and it’s seems to have forgot what subreddits my account is in. I can go to a subreddit I’m subscribed to and see fresh posts but all the built in views Home/Popular/News… All have content I saw hours ago or yesterday… Why do I want to use an app that shows me old posts and makes me hunt down new ones of interest?
I’m posting this comment from “Boost for Lemmy” to make me feel that I’m still on Reddit lmao
Same! That’s what I’m using! I had Boost for Lemmy set to pre download or whatever and this morning when looking for my Reddit fix and being dissatisfied with Reddit I was like… Wait a minute, what happened to Boost for Lemmy? I wanted to check that out sometime and started using it lol
Why would you go to the official reddit app? I continued using Relay until it stopped working yesterday, but Stealth and Red Reader still work just fine and are FOSS. Red Reader was given dispensation for being a disability app IIRC.
Boost for Reddit is what I’m use to so my plan was to jump ship when the Boost for Lemmy app came out but the download tried to happen when I wasn’t on WiFi and I forgot to install it. With my recent feed issues I remember I was planning to jump ship
I jumped from boost for Reddit to sync for Lemmy. No regrets loving it.
Edit: just realised boost for lemmy is available now too