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by whstl 906 days ago
> "movie and celeb gossip subs"

I haven't come across the Indian version of this, but the default page (I don't have an account) now has a lot of posts from celebrity gossip subs, and the viciousness and hatred there is worse than what I saw in radical politics subs, or even 4chan.

At least the porn and NSFW stuff was hidden. This actually what made me block Reddit from my devices.

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I only browse /r/all any longer - with no account after admin fraud killing mods for policy gain... and I have a good filter-out list in RES, but yeah, .in domain submissions have spiked in the last year+

Would be cool for a toggle in prefs/RES to only include certain domain tLDs/blacklist certain TLDs -- like maybe one doesnt want to see .cn, .in, .ir, .[STRING] ?

Regardless, granularity over feed is still tedious in /r/ and RES is still a slow solution.

You can edit RES files, but avg reddit viewer (Anyone who does Not use old.reddit) just get the same crappy 'modern' UX.

I wonder about engagement times on old.reddit vs www.reddit get - I cant even look at https://www.reddit - but thats due to me customizing me data density to my view.

https://i.imgur.com/XKMfMJO.png

https://i.imgur.com/MLnUEPc.png

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Reddit should be ground/target|zero for sentiment/mind-mining (will never forget in an interview with Twitter when they were still on (howard) (near the AT&T spy room) -- Question:

"What do you think Twitter is?"

ME: "You are a global sentiment engine"

They did not like that comment... and asked me what physical publications I read to keep up on networking/DC Design/etc...

(Which I thought was ironic, except for seeing what publications they could exploit - but the truth was they wanted to usurp sentiment+discourse...

(Succeeded)

(similar with google interview (2006) "what would you say we do around here?" -- >>"Everyone thinks you're a search engine - but you're just an advertising company"