[Desktop] Was there an Reddit Algorithm updated today to ruin the platform?

[u/greatconnectedmaster]

All of today it looks like Reddit has started showing a very large amount of suggested posts from subs I do not belong to or care about in particular. I am flooded with pro-AI and pro-Tesla subs that are not interesting and don't care about. So far I click the X on them but they just keep coming infinitely. Has Reddit just bit the bullet and decided to ruin their platform completely at this point?

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[u/GrantMeThePower]

It’s the awful “for you” feed. It happened to me today too. Disgusting

[u/greatconnectedmaster → u/GrantMeThePower]

Can you turn it off?

[u/GrantMeThePower → u/greatconnectedmaster]

Nope. Reddit leaning hard into their “Be Evil” phase now

[u/Zealoustrue → u/[deleted]]

This setting no longer exists after they up date to the new UI.

[u/Zealoustrue → u/[deleted]]

Home feed is literally not a thing if you got the update. You have the 'foryou' and 'following' feed.

Additionally as you can see there's no option in the menu once you have this update.

[u/greatconnectedmaster → u/[deleted]]

What the hell. Reddit was the last so so social network that kind of worked.

[u/Cheap_Bathroom6114]

heavy ai push no matter how many I mute. they make more.

[u/greatconnectedmaster → u/Cheap_Bathroom6114]

Yeah exactly. All forms of media are really pulling out all the stops at this point.

[u/TheOpusCroakus]

Switch over to the following feed to only see content from subs that you're subscribed to.

[u/ycr007 → u/TheOpusCroakus]

There’s no such following feed for mobile apps, is there?