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I Just Discovered Reddit Has Subscribed Me too Subreddits I Never Joined. Hell, Some of These I've Never Visited (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by Bob@midwest.social to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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First off, yes, I'm getting rid of my account, but I decided to have a look around on the official app and

  1. It's hot garbage
  2. I'm subscribed to a bunch of subs I've never even interacted with before in my life. What gives? Did they just sign me up for shit without asking? They sent me emails after promising they wouldn't, they've lied about a lot of stuff, but every time I'm surprised they're such dicks for some reason.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sounds about their speed. I haven't been on Reddit for a couple weeks and I don't miss it one bit, just a fading memory. My sign-in instance is running Lemmy 0.18.1-rc.5 and it's really beautiful looking on desktop browser using the new compact theme. Then they fixed a whole bunch of stuff. The 0.18.1 official release is going to be brilliant, way better looking than Reddit.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

To be fair, they've always subscribed every new user to like 50 default subs, but I never noticed until I tried the official app because they never showed up on my third party app's list of subs I'm subbed to. And they never even showed up on my homepage... Subs like /r/videos and whatnot.

What subs are you alledging they subscribed you to?

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit autosubscribes new accounts to "popular" subreddits to help fill the front page. Go make a brand new account, you'll likely see the same thing.