- Duolingo is facing user backlash for mixing updates from random strangers into users’ personal activity feeds, burying achievements from actual friends.
- Frustrated learners are blocking profiles and reporting accounts as spam to clean up their activity tabs.
- Users are demanding basic feed filters and follow approvals to regain control over their social experience.
Duolingo hasn’t particularly been shy about making controversial platform tweaks, but its social feed design is driving learners up the wall. Following widespread frustration over disruptive course updates that scrambled progress paths and introduced unfamiliar vocabulary, users are now facing another persistent headache: random strangers taking over their activity feed. Instead of highlighting milestones from actual friends and family, Duolingo continues to mix in social updates from complete strangers, diluting the feature’s core purpose.
Reddit user EnoughConcentrate897 voiced their exasperation over their feed being filled with 100-day streaks and sentence shares from accounts they don’t know or follow, and so many other users chimed in with the same frustration.
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