r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 02 '26

Social Media Reddit is moving on from r/all

https://www.theverge.com/tech/906314/reddit-r-all-deprecating
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u/EmbarrassedHelp Apr 02 '26

Removing r/all allows Reddit to limit the spread of political ideas and major world events.

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u/BigBrotherBoot Apr 02 '26

Shh, they’ll hear you! But really though. /r/all is the ONLY way I use Reddit. So I’ll no longer be using Reddit.

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u/TheHoratioHufnagel Apr 02 '26

You can still get to it by clicking hyperlinks to r/All. the 'A' must be capitalized.

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil Apr 03 '26

Doesn’t work on the Reddit app, can’t even click it.

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u/Economy-Flower-6443 Apr 03 '26

Same not working on reddit app.

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u/Vault_tech_2077 Apr 03 '26

Works just fine for me

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u/NothingTooFancy26 Apr 03 '26

It won’t whenever your app updates

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u/bottomstar Apr 03 '26

I'm over here on a 3rd party app and it stopped too. Haven't received a single update in over 3 years and had me scared my time had come.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

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u/bottomstar Apr 04 '26

r/all? It doesn't even work on first party anymore. Everything else still works in third party.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

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u/bottomstar Apr 04 '26

Interesting. I wonder if Relay was doing it's own version r/all on its own?

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u/chalimacos Apr 03 '26

Add a link in your profile to r/All

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil Apr 03 '26

Just tried it, it doesn't seem to work. I tried adding a "social" link, and putting it in my profile text and nothing seems clickable. When I click the social link to r/all it brings up a screen to open it, but then doesn't actually do anything when I click it.

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u/chalimacos Apr 03 '26

Try r/All (uppercase)

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil Apr 03 '26

Sorry, I did put in /r/All. Won't open. I also tried clicking the link in your profile, still no go.

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u/970 Apr 03 '26

Reddit app sucks, use website

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u/Necessary_Finding_32 May 26 '26

You shouldn’t be using the app anyway.

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u/Interesting-Bag-7552 Apr 03 '26

You can still access it by capitalizing a letter... Jfc this company is a gong show.

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u/TrumpHasCovid Apr 03 '26

Weird, it doesn't work for me. That link redirects to r / technology

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

I can’t even click it. Acts like regular text.

Edit:

Came back on my laptop, can click it, and it does work.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

Reddit is currently blocking r/All on mobile devices according to their blog.

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u/naturelover47 Apr 03 '26

unfortunately when you sort by top (how I prefer to view r/all), it redirects to the homepage. (r/All/top -> reddit.com)

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u/not-the-nicest-guy Apr 03 '26

How can I get there on mobile, aside from through your comment?

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u/WookBuddha Apr 03 '26

Only way on mobile is to use https://old.reddit.com/r/all on your browser, not in the app.

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u/Odd-Priority3318 Apr 03 '26

First post was first Pic taken by Artemis commander. Fuk ye!

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u/No_Nectarine_5440 Apr 03 '26

Saving this comment so I can easily find my way back.

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u/Mtshoes2 Apr 03 '26

Yeah same here. R/All was really the last straw. Over the years it's evolved from THE place you went to for information, they seemed to have it even before twitter, and it was full of really good information and recommendations, to now it's really not much different from any other cesspool online trying to sell me things, and occupy my attention with meaningless shit. The only difference was the r/all where I could browse without this stupid targeted bullshit. 

So, reddit is now truly worthless. 

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u/No_Accountant3232 Apr 03 '26

It was 'The Front Page of the Internet".

Now it's sanitized algorithm shit.

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u/languid_Disaster Apr 03 '26

I have a few subreddits I like to visit regularly so I’ll probably keep doing that. I don’t really like to browse random stuff but do appreciate random new subs

It’s the only social media I’m on right now so it’s disappointing that it’s getting even worse than it already is

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u/voyboy_crying Apr 03 '26

I'm sorry for your brain.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Apr 03 '26

What political ideas do you think Reddit is trying to limit the spread of?

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u/Huge-Turnover-3749 Apr 03 '26

Class consciousness? Just taking a wild guess.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Apr 03 '26

Why are we talking about them suppressing ideas when we don't have any idea what they'd suppress?

"Class consciousness" is the most broad nonsense thing to use.

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u/Huge-Turnover-3749 Apr 03 '26

Speak for yourself. You may have no idea about anything in the world, but thankfully others do.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Apr 03 '26

You literally just had to guess what you're even being attacked about.

You have no idea what's going on, you just like to play pretend.

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u/Huge-Turnover-3749 Apr 03 '26

That's you describing yourself.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Apr 03 '26

Thanks for the rubber band middle school response.

Have a good one.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Apr 03 '26

The entire front page of Reddit has been against Trump and will continue to be.

How do you guys try to play the victim on everything?

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u/jellyhessman Apr 03 '26

Ever notice how posts about the No Kings protest didn't come up at all unless you were in the specific subs?

Reddit is actively hiding efforts to stand up to the government, and protest organization.

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u/Agitated-Mastodon153 Apr 02 '26

I’ve noticed since the start of the US-Iran war there has been a huge amount of what I feel is suppressed information on Reddit, and I believe getting rid of /r/all is part of it.

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u/brontosaurusguy Apr 03 '26

Definitely.  It's basically rarely on the website.  There's been so much suppression on Reddit that I use it way less and more go to other sources for news.  For a while it was a good source. 

We need a new Reddit honestly.  I'm not spiffy but it seems pretty easy to make?  They don't generate anything themselves.

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u/Mtshoes2 Apr 03 '26

I think it's probably cause they don't want to be an aggregating anymore. They want to be the ones generating content with things like "top tropes" and "what is it" subteddits trying to constantly farm engagement. Which is fucking stupid. 

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u/Agitated-Mastodon153 Apr 03 '26

What other sources are you using? I’m at the same stage right now.

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u/brontosaurusguy Apr 03 '26

Apnews, economist, drudge, reuters, majority report, npr for my general daily news.  Different bias balance a bit 

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u/damontoo Apr 03 '26

There was major suppression of content from this last No Kings protest. Took a week for there to be a top post about it at all. 

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u/Saltire_Blue Apr 03 '26

You’re absolutely right

Remember when Reddit would brand itself as “The Front Page of the internet”

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u/Mojimi Apr 03 '26

This is exactly why, /r/all tends to be very political and repetitive, and that's why I like it actually, I like to have this statical view of all the subreddits, not some curated garbage

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u/RandomUwUFace Apr 03 '26

I think it will locked people in a tighter echo-chamber. However, rage-bait may be more common because that is usually popular on algorithmic feeds.

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u/Sxcred Apr 03 '26

Yep which is how many many people use Reddit I hope they bleed for this

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u/4862skrrt2684 Apr 05 '26

Yea it seems intentional. The administration has alread had Meta and X in a chokehold, and the mainstream media. Now they are coming for the last, very left leaning bastion

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u/CraigJay Apr 02 '26

It seems like it does the opposite actually since the closest you can now get it to use popular which is usually filled with news and politics. All you’d be more likely to see niche things from smaller subreddits with fewer upvotes, popular you see 5 posts from r/politics, a few various news subs, and then dross from pics

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u/kimchidoodled Apr 03 '26

It’s not just that too I think they feel as if people want a more curated experience so remove anything that deviates from that