I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever experienced any spam ever in my Reddit inbox in the 14 years I’ve been on it. What sort of stuff do you get?

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      1 year ago

      Not the guy, but a fun little side story about my reddit account is that probably multiple years ago someone tagged my username in a cryptocurrency sub or thread or something and then deleted the area I was tagged in which left me with a notification I was unable to clear or even view afterwards.

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        1 year ago

        Something similar to this happened to me. Saved a comment in a sub that I no longer care for, but the comment was deleted or removed later. Now my saved feed has a blank comment from a deleted username but it’s still linked to that sub. Cannot unsave it.

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      1 year ago

      I got more spam Feb-June of this year on Reddit that I did in the previous 15 years. It was almost 100% only fans spam accounts too.

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      1 year ago

      You’re probably using old Reddit, aren’t you? The difference between old Reddit and new Reddit and the Reddit app are night and day in terms of spam.

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        1 year ago

        You’re probably using old Reddit, aren’t you?

        Correct, I’m not an imbecile!

        The Reddit app is genuinely awful. When I saw people saying it was bad I figured they might have been exaggerating, but no, it’s terrible.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve gotten “invited to join” several subs. When I look to see what the subs are, they are just places trying to market something. I never got any spam in my inbox before the Reddit shakeup.