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.
Yeah, it’s absurd to see the spam that gets shown by users on default / when joining. It’s when you realize that if you’ve just visited reddit on your own account for a long time that you’ve just been living in a bubble when it reality it was being set up to tailor to something else. I found this out during the heights of its crypto/memestock rush.