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I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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Reddit wasn't tailored to the user, the user tailored it to themselves (unless they were fool enough to use the official app).
It really is just that there's less content here, and the content there is isn't sorted particularly well via Hot. It's a WIP
How the Best and Hot algorithms work on Reddit is completely up to Reddit. They 100% tailor it to the user.
Well Reddit still gets to decide which posts/subs to show over other ones based on voting and engagement metrics.
In the past months, I was getting so many "you will probably like..."
No, I don't. Reddit, you're showing me irrelevant subs which prevent me from browsing the feed I curated.
It was so annoying...
I've been a 3PA user for years, so that never really happened to me.
What does 3PA mean?
Third party app(s)