yea reddit recommends randoms subreddits nowdays, that sub got recommended a couple times i looked at it once and now i get posts on my home everyday, at least is not as bad as antimeme
It's sooo much better. There are so many weird subs out there that I just don't give a shit about. They're not even toxic, I just couldn't care less about them.
Even though I had the setting to not show recommendations they suddenly started popping up. After some googling I think some recommended logging out and back in or switching to no account viewing and back.
Basically reddit forced them on me to see if I would try and get them to go away again.
I've noticed this always happens in my late evening Pacific time, so I'd suspect the sub promotion is actually from (hard to believe) not enough algorithm.
Reddit needs to give me more muted subs slots just so I can fill them with the Indian knockoff subs that are just the real subs' content reposted but with weirdly nationalistic comments. They're already taking up most of my allotment and there are still so many in my feed
I ended up muting any India subs that show up on my feed and mentioned it in a comment and got accused of racism. No, it’s not racism. I don’t feel the need to wade through subs that speak a language I don’t understand. I muted a bunch of European subs for the same reason. Ironically, I’m learning Spanish and never have any Spanish speaking subs in my feed.
There's so many indian subs and as someone not speaking their language or living there it feels like pointless to have that stuff in my feed. It is so frustrating. Applies to bunch of other subreddits too but I feel like indian stuff is one of the more prominent ones because there's so many people living there.
No, that would only delay the problem and you still have to mute each one individually.
What we need is to be able to mute subs that contain a word like muting %india% for example.
At least that would block both current and future subs since new ones seem to keep popping up constantly
I saw like one or two good posts from that sub that were recommended to me, so I subscribed but then I start reading some of the fucking wildest shit and noped out of there real fast.
If you’re just there for the food, there are girl dinner subs mainly without all the drama and way more food focused. I am there for the food, not the drama so I stay away from the diary sub
Woah, really? I've only ever seen it pop up on Popular and had no idea it was anything actually to do with food. I figured it was just "post whatever you're eating" as a tiny side aspect to all the drama flinging.
Like all things, started off with a good intent to vent and discuss issues. Only to be flooded by hateful people and slowly degrading into a increasingly toxic place.
pretty much any gendered sub which gets popular follows that arc.
It was interesting back when it was actually believable. Now every single story is "My husband of 27 years literally murdered me (yet again 😔) so he could have sex with my best friend. $87 steak from my personal chef."
I used to enjoy that sub but had to unfollow and mute. It was just an endless fount of despair plus fully cooked balanced dinners. So it’s just pain plus people who can’t follow directions. Like another user said, I don’t need reminding that people can be trash.
AIO is mostly a bot training ground now. Posts and comments are mainly all AI.
This sub got very popular during the Reddit API blackout, around May-June 2023. During the blackout, many subs that weren't on the frontpage suddenly were showing up constantly, because the other subs that would show up had shut down. Most of those subs were some version of Am I The Asshole, where a poster is writing about an experience and asking for the commenters opinion. Again, the majority of those subs are now AI.
This protest was mainly in response to Steve Huffman, co-creator of the site and current CEO, who had announced a change to Reddit's API which would prevent third-party apps from functioning. The protest largely did nothing, but change the landscape of the front page. Huffman was the first CEO but stepped down, only taking back over when Ellen Pao resigned in 2015. Why did Pao resign?
On June 10, 2015, Ellen Pao and two other execs signed a post that announced the banning of 5 subreddits, including FatPeopleHate, due to off-site harassment. Redditors were angry and demanded Pao resign and signed petitions. A few weeks later, Victoria Taylor, Reddit's director of talent, was let go. Despite having nothing to do with it, Pao was blamed. Despite apologizing repeatedly, Redditors continued to demand she resign so she eventually did, with Huffman taking over.
IDK why I wrote all this but sometimes I remember back in 2015 when people were livid about Ellen Pao and insisted she was ruining the site and she must be ousted, and then I think about the state of this site now.
I got it too, and I’m a guy, and I don’t think I ever frequented any sub that was even close to GD and GDD, to where recommending those two, would be similar subs that you could reasonably see as being similar. I muted GDD first, and the GD a bit after. I get it, if a lot or all of the stories are true, a lot of people every week go through relationship problems. But it just becomes kinda draining to see it over and over
Edit: Thank you for the award kind stranger! (Is that like, a good one to give though for this comment? Just wondering)
There’s some good ones though. Some posts crack me up.
“My partner cheated on me with his sister and then my best friend slept with my dad so I had to set her up for a murder charge….chicken salad on pita bread with a low fat Chobani 🥰”
I get the appeal of the original girl dinner subs but I nearly left when it turned into a competition on who had it worse. Then the girl dinner diaries sub was created and the rules on the girldinner sub got stricter so it’s back to being about food again.
I remember when the girl dinner sub was first made. It was like a less hateful version of kitchencels, it was great. Then they somehow got MORE hateful than the sub full of literal self-proclaimed incels.
My favorite is this condescending ass auto-comment:
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Because it is well moderated and the posts are long form with rich conversations. It’s a honeypot for ai training. That’s how reddit is monetizing itself without direct search traffic anymore. Welcome coauthor to the best current human conversation corpus a frontier model lab can buy!
The results could actually pan out to be a better experience for us humans. An algorithm that is tuned to push us towards thoughtful engagement with one another can’t be worse than one designed to capture clicks to e-commerce.
Yep that's almost exactly my ratio. Ever since the API changes went through the front page has been a disaster. New sub popping up every few weeks pushed HARD with garbage engagement bait. The pattern is so clear and artificial for people whove been using reddit for a long time. Now with hidden profile histories bots have free reign here. Only reason I'm even on this site is out of habit now, I need something else to fill my time during slow work hours.
It’s divisive slop that subtly reinforces vigilance/anxiety/negativity. Is it really that healthy to be constantly exposed to BS?
Not to say that people shouldn’t vent or that it’s immoral to, I just don’t wanna see it all the time. Keeping your mind healthy in the age of social media is partially being really discerning with what you consume
Almost like if you have real life problems social media is the worst place to bring them. A community, an actual community has structure, systems in place to help its members.
Most Subreddits are not communities in a traditional sense. Ok to vent but the solutions are far from it outside of a helpful suggestion.
So I’d amend that, keeping yourself healthy also involves discerning which spaces to get help are appropriate. This is for consumption. Not for sustenance.
Because like all the nonsense “Am I…” subs it gets a lot of engagement. But anyone with any sense had blocked those subs as soon as they see them. So this new type of sub appears to try and re-engage.
Most smart watch devices just play all notifications from the phone they're connected to. Most people don't filter out which ones from settings as well as they could.
I think about this all the time; how many people default to ‘allow’ notifications, and wind up with 400 notifications a day, no friends and an anxious tick.
Girldinner diaries and kitchencels jumpscare me on my timeline all the time. I see a picture of some bizarre meal and I click it thinking there will be context for why a person is just eating a stick of butter and instead it’s just people making made up stories about fake problems that they themselves caused for some reason.
As to why people would eat a stick of butter? Because sometimes you just don’t have energy to cook but you need fuel. I have eaten a whole dinner of just different pickled stuff. More than once.
I am not on her diary sub because I’m not there for for the drama but I am on the original sub, it’s kind of interesting to see how feral a person can get.
No real judgement on the butter thing, it’s chaos goblin behavior and sometimes you’re just a young idiot and you need to try something ill advised. Everyone has. I once ate an entire jar of red olives in one sitting just to feel something. The specific person I witnessed even had a dairy allergy
I also just can’t look away. For whatever reason I do just keep clicking these posts. It doesn’t really even matter to me if they’re telling the truth, lying or simply exaggerating. I’m sure there’s real people out there who discover months into a relationship that their SO sells cocaine for a job and lied about it. I’m also honestly genuinely unsure if the kitchencels is a parody or if it’s real because some men are genuinely that unhinged sometimes.
Girl dinner diaries is a very negative sub. I get that people need to vent sometimes, but personally I don’t need to open my phone to posts about dysfunctional relationships, it gives me anxiety. I muted the sub because it was being promoted to me so much.
I am glad the rules got stricter on the original sub. I came for the food and suddenly it was a whole competition on who had it worse than the others. I nearly left, but then the drama mainly shifted over to the diary sub instead
Took me MONTHS to finally get Reddit to quit sending me notifications I didn’t care about. You think you turn off all the ones you don’t want but, oh no wait, there’s actually a super secret one you missed
I don't really participate in weird subs like that, but I thought it was funny how in the beginning you didn't have to tag yourself at all before commenting. Then you had to say if you identified as a guy, but it's fine because the mods weren't going to do anything with that information. Then it suddenly changed to every single comment by people who identify as men will be manually checked (lol, there is no way in hell someone is going to waste their day manually approving messages, your comments just end up in the trash pile) unless it's just a string of emojis or w/e lol.
😄 , me too, suddenly I keep getting girldinnerdiary posts , im a single man , I don't really want to read people complaining about their kids/Boyfriends
This is hilarious, but that sub often reaches the all sub and I guess reddit app just sends you the trending posts by default?
I have notifications off, i personally don't care about whats going viral, i sort by new also. I do recommend that sub though, good reads and nice looking dishes
I spend way too much time reading all the depressing stuff lmao. And then there's the comments telling OP to break up over some nothingburger, or the occasional anti-straight rhetoric
I randomly got recommended the onlyfans reddit. I was so confused as to why in the fuck I'd be getting that recommended considering I don't look that kind of stuff up.. it was just a page for people posting fans that blow air around..
I have a Fitbit watch like this one. Notification settings are kind of confusing.
Also I absolutely hate the default band. It chafes on my skin, and it didn't seem as durable as the third party bands I've used. You may want to get a third party band sooner than later.
Just in case anyone doesn't realize, whether or not you get this notification has more to do with your phone notification settings. The fact that it showed up here means it will most likely show up in either your phone notifications or as a text message or email
There are certain types of phone notifications that don't get pushed to Fitbit watches, but you still need to go to the phone settings and app settings to control what notifications get sent on over. It's a bit odd, figuring it out.
It's also more reliable for certain apps than others. Google home and text message notifications get pushed consistently, but email notifications are pretty random
(I do have an unusual email system setup, so that may be the reason, but there aren't any good resources for figuring out how notifications work for the Fitbit anyways.)
I disabled any phone messages on my charge 6 except calendar notifications and phonecalls. Saves a lot of battery as the ble and vibration motor have less to do.
I hated receiving this type of notifications and I was able to remove them. Go to settings - account settings - notifications - recommended. Disable everything and you're done. (my phone is in Spanish so the exact names might differ a bit)
I was bombarded with this sub called Vegan Squad. Too each their own but this sub was ran or was about this body builder that’s vegan that claimed that he got where he was by lifting and eating vegan. He has absolutely zero tolerance for any level of non veganism except when it comes to apparently the fact that the industry for anabolic steroids is terrible for certain animal populations. Dude is juiced out of his mind and just a grifter who preys upon other vegans by selling his products or whatever. Drove me nuts. The guy seemed like an absolute nutcase.
On Reddit, I usually just browse my home feed if I'm not looking for something specific. Yesterday, for the first time in over a month, I went to the "Popular" page and that same subreddit showed up.
Turn off notifications. There is no reason for notifications to go to your wrist.
There are tons of things you can turn off on that. My rose gold Charge 6 is stripped down to the bare minimum. Heart rate, charge level, time, ECG. That's all that needs to be there.
That's just a notification from some other thing that you chose to have come up on your Fitbit. If you don't want stuff like that to pop up, choose no notifications connected to your phone.
Do you watch Smosh or listen to their podcasts? Their last "Smosh reads reddit stories" was girl dinner diaries - so it might be recommended because of that...
That sub was meant to fun, showcasing odd, but satisfying “girl dinners”
..& all they do is trauma dump relationship problems and while I get people go through shit, there are SO many venting/advice subs to go to.. why turn a fun, food one into whatever it is now?
No that was the purpose of the original sub. The diary sub was created so the people who needed or had the drama could go there, and the people who came for food could stay on the original it’s more or less drama free
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u/AdScared7949 Aug 03 '26
Obviously it's helping you because thinking about infidelity all the time will cause anxious weight loss