For Reddit to save itself, it needs to put a major effort into the 'recommended page'. Iff the recommended page delivered a tailored experience to each user, then it would not matter (nearly so much) how many 'Digg refugees' arrived on the site. If your interest is programming, your recommended page would show you a programming site with articles that interested you. The social media site that gets this right will so…
To answer the original question, my last visit was about 10 minutes ago. These days, I find I downmod or hide 90% of my recommended stories.