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I joined 4 days ago and I can only comment. I can not post any questions in any groups that I have joined. I have not found the answer on the reddit help section. HELP

How do I stop the page from being blurred if I don't use the app?

The algorithm for recommendations is hopelessly broke. Yes, I can turn off recommendations in settings but I guess that's just for show because I still get recommended posts in my feed. Less often? Yes, but they are still noticeably there. I wouldn't mind the recommendations if they were loosely based on geographical location or content relevant to my age group but it's all based on what YouTube channels I watch and my Netflix watch history. Listen, if I wanted to see content based on stuff from YouTube and Netflix, I would be on YouTube or Netflix. Are you mental? There have been very few times in the last 4 years that reddit has met my expectations and been everything I have come to know and love about it. One of those times was in the last year, when I decided to delete the reddit app and try the reddit is fun (rif) app to see if it was any less frustrating. I don't know if it was coincidence or freak timing or something else I'm unaware of, but after browsing reddit for the first time on the rif app, the stuff I was seeing just hit me right and I was actually brought to tears because of how perfectly curated my feed was. Post after post was genuinely high quality content that made me feel connected and engaged in the best way. It was amaxing, I could hardly believe my eyes. The resulting dopamine rush was damn near euphoric. I was instantly reminded of why I fell in love with the reddit community in the first place so many years ago. And then, all those good feelings turned into questions that flooded my mind like "why can't reddit be like this all the time whenever I need it?" "What went wrong before that made being on reddit so unbearable instead of enjoyable?" and "How can I teach the algorithm that this is all I ever wanted from reddit?" I would buy premium in a heartbeat if it was always that good. As I continued using rif though, I realized there's nothing unique about the way it shows you content... it's still based on your settings and reddit's algorithm. The content quality and relevance did seem to go back to the unbearable default shortly after that first interaction with the newly downloaded app. It may have been coincidence, i don't know for sure. I strongly doubt that my brain misinterpreted average content as being well above average just because I wanted it to be. The bar is set fairly high for what I deem "quality content". Whatever the reason may be for the diminished relevance, quality, and authenticity of content on reddit nowadays, it has had a direct negative result on meaningful engagement from this reddit user. They don't share my sadness about it though. They have literally replaced quality with quantity. I guess that's enough for most users. Then again, what do most users know about the reddit good ol days? Anyway, I've reached out about various issues I had with the native reddit app to reddit admin, but the only response I ever got from them was to an issue with my coins and then for my foia request. All the messages I sent regarding my feed, recommendations, all my questions about why I'm seeing content that, according to my chosen settings I should not be seeing, went unanswered. I also brought up a potential bug i encountered where if I'm browsing while not logged in (to evade recommendations) and want to upvote or comment on a post, ofc it's like "you need to login" right? So when I do, the whole damn thing refreshes and the post or comment I was just looking at and trying to reply to is suddenly. POOF gone... no where to be found on any of my feeds. I didn't get a response about that issue either, however I did notice that when I logout to browse now, it doesn't change from what I see when I'm logged in. It's the same, minus a couple of feeds. So, yeah, that's a huge improvement. /s

The algorithm for recommendations is hopelessly broke. Yes, I can turn off recommendations in settings but I guess that's just for show because I still get recommended posts in my feed. Less often? Yes, but they are still noticeably there. I wouldn't mind the recommendations if they were loosely based on geographical location or content relevant to my age group but no, it's all crap based on what YouTube channels I watch and my Netflix watch history. Listen, if I wanted to see content based on stuff from YouTube and Netflix, I would fucking be on YouTube or Netflix. Are you mental? There have been very few times in the last 4 years that reddit has met my expectations and just been everything I have come to know and love about it. One of those times was in the last year, when I decided to delete the reddit app and try the reddit is fun (rif) app to see if it was any less frustrating. I don't know if it was coincidence or freak timing or something else I'm unaware of, but after browsing reddit for the first time on the rif app, the stuff I was seeing just hit me right and I was actually brought to tears because of how perfectly curated my feed was. Post after post was genuinely high quality content that made me feel connected. I could hardly believe my eyes. The resulting dopamine rush was damn near euphoric. I was instantly reminded of why I fell in love with the reddit community in the first place so many years ago. And then, all those good feelings turned into questions that flooded my mind like "why can't I just have reddit be like this all the time whenever I need it?", "what went wrong before that made being on reddit so unbearable instead of enjoyable?" "How can I teach the algorithm that this, all of this, is all I ever wanted from reddit?" I would buy premium in a heartbeat if it was always that good! As I continued using rif though, I realized there's nothing unique about the way it shows you content... it's still based on your settings and reddit's algorithm. The content quality and relevance did seem to get worse (or go back to the default) shortly after that first interaction with the newly downloaded app. It very well may have been coincidence, i don't know for sure. I strongly doubt that my brain misinterpreted average content as being well above average just because I wanted it to be. The bar is set fairly high for what I deem "quality content". Whatever the reason may be for the diminished relevance, quality, and authenticity of content on reddit, it has had a direct negative result on engagement from this reddit user. I simply don't even bother getting on reddit most days now because I know it won't be what I need and I'll just end up pissed of and feeling like no one cares about what I think. (I've reached out about various issues I had with the native reddit app to reddit admin, but the only response I ever got from them was in response to an issue with my coins and then for my foia request. All the messages I sent regarding my feed, recommendations, all my questions about why I'm seeing content that, according to settings I personally set in the app, I should not be seeing... to those concerns, I've yet to receive a response. I also brought up a potential bug i encountered where if I'm browsing while not logged in (to evade recommendations) and want to upvote or comment on a post, ofc it's like "you need to login" so when I do, the whole damn thing refreshes and the post or comment I was just fucking looking at is gone, and no where to be found on any of my feeds. I didn't get a response about that issue either, however I did notice that when I logout to browse now, it doesn't change from what I see when I'm logged in. It's the same, minus a couple of feeds. So, yeah, that's a huge improvement. Make it worse, that'll teach me. For fucks sake...