Not quite, because /popular sorts by sub popularity, not post popularity.
Let’s say I make a post on a popular subreddit. The sub has 1M active users, and the post gets 10k upvotes, (so 1% of the active users upvoted it). It shows up on /popular, because the sub has a million active users, but will likely be buried on /all because it has a small proportional rate (only 1%) of upvotes.
Now let’s say I make a post on a niche sub. It only has 100 active users, but it gets 100 upvotes. Literally every single person on the sub who saw it upvoted. It’s the most popular post that the sub has ever seen. It would show up in /all because it was extremely popular where it was posted… But it doesn’t show up in /popular, because the sub only has 100 active users.
Removing /all will only serve to hurt niche communities, which historically rely on /all for visibility and to bring in new users. I personally found a ton of small niche subs that I otherwise never would have, simply by browsing /all.
It’s also going to help the site more easily control what content appears on their front page, because they can focus their moderation efforts on the most popular subs. With /all, niche communities were able to reach wide audiences… From the perspective of someone who is trying to push an agenda, that is a nightmare scenario. By removing /all, if the site admins want to shift the site’s zeitgeist, they only need to focus their censorship on a few select subs. The small niche subs can be easily ignored, because they won’t have any visibility except for the people who are already subscribed.
With /all, niche communities were able to reach wide audiences… From the perspective of someone who is trying to push an agenda, that is a nightmare scenario.
That’s the heart of it. US midterm elections are coming (or not) and the billionaires are desperate to control not only the outcome, but what and how things are discussed. AI hasn’t worked out as planned, the peasants are getting uppity, so r/all has to go.
AI is pretty much a large portion of reddit posts right now, hence why they want people on r/popular instead of r/all, in r/all you can actul filter out subs you dont want on yuor feed(although you still can enter those subs through the search).
reddit has pretty much given free reign for most subs to be astroturfed by propaganda for a few years, actually when biden became president when the astroturfing significantly increased.
Not quite, because /popular sorts by sub popularity, not post popularity.
Let’s say I make a post on a popular subreddit. The sub has 1M active users, and the post gets 10k upvotes, (so 1% of the active users upvoted it). It shows up on /popular, because the sub has a million active users, but will likely be buried on /all because it has a small proportional rate (only 1%) of upvotes.
Now let’s say I make a post on a niche sub. It only has 100 active users, but it gets 100 upvotes. Literally every single person on the sub who saw it upvoted. It’s the most popular post that the sub has ever seen. It would show up in /all because it was extremely popular where it was posted… But it doesn’t show up in /popular, because the sub only has 100 active users.
Removing /all will only serve to hurt niche communities, which historically rely on /all for visibility and to bring in new users. I personally found a ton of small niche subs that I otherwise never would have, simply by browsing /all.
It’s also going to help the site more easily control what content appears on their front page, because they can focus their moderation efforts on the most popular subs. With /all, niche communities were able to reach wide audiences… From the perspective of someone who is trying to push an agenda, that is a nightmare scenario. By removing /all, if the site admins want to shift the site’s zeitgeist, they only need to focus their censorship on a few select subs. The small niche subs can be easily ignored, because they won’t have any visibility except for the people who are already subscribed.
That’s the heart of it. US midterm elections are coming (or not) and the billionaires are desperate to control not only the outcome, but what and how things are discussed. AI hasn’t worked out as planned, the peasants are getting uppity, so r/all has to go.
AI is pretty much a large portion of reddit posts right now, hence why they want people on r/popular instead of r/all, in r/all you can actul filter out subs you dont want on yuor feed(although you still can enter those subs through the search).
reddit has pretty much given free reign for most subs to be astroturfed by propaganda for a few years, actually when biden became president when the astroturfing significantly increased.