Dear Reddit, who asked for this "new follower" feature? : reddit

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Dear Reddit, who asked for this "new follower" feature? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by WalterzarBoBalterzar to c/[email protected]

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Just another nail in the coffin. Time to delete this app

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[–] Crackhappy 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh come on, they want some of those FB billions. Of course they're going to do shady shit like this.

[–] WalterzarBoBalterzar 2 points 2 years ago

I find it ironic how they claim about not being profitable. How many millions of dollars did they spend on various developers salaries to build this unwanted feature?

[–] metic 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this real?

[–] WalterzarBoBalterzar 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unfortunately :/

I get about 2-3 of these fake follow requests per day in the official Reddit app.

I had the official app installed alongside Sync. Finally deleted the official app today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I was getting these but found out if you dig thru the settings you can turn it off....but it was in some strange place I think. Granted since then the site has somewhat imploded...

[–] metic 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder how I've managed to avoid this. Maybe because my profile isn't set to NSFW?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I knew reddit was going to shit when I started getting follows like this. I just didn't think that it would be so soon lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Deleted!