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Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.

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[–] [email protected] 308 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who the fuck designed this?

[–] [email protected] 203 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also the "actual fucking content" is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

yeah, was gonna say that's a user issue but it's in the biggest scabreddit so that's kind of on the admins too

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's a symptom of the platform altogether. It has karma, which isn't just 'some number', it actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page. This is why people sell accounts.

I think Lemmy will have a much more organic feel until the major instances realize they can also manipulate posts for cash. However, I feel it will still lack a huge portion of reposts and repost bots

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

11 years on Reddit and I didn't know karma helped get to frontpage faster. I had 660k comment karma..

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

just reminds me to Nolan Sorrento from ready player one

This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures

idk which one is more sad, that reddit is actually doing this or that i had to specify "ready player one" when looking up the exact quote because otherwise it referred me to completely serious marketing articles

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[–] [email protected] 221 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I’m one of the few that never used the third party apps for Reddit during my time there. Only the official app. And even I could tell you that app was miserable. No exaggeration, every third post is a massive ad. Once you’ve scrolled far enough your entire feed becomes ads. You have to close out/refresh to make it go back to normal.

Wefwef is a glitchy web app that doesn’t let me scroll or post comments sometimes made and maintained by some dude in his basement, and it’s still preferable to the official app of a company seeking a multimillion dollar IPO

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not wefwef—that’s on lemmy.world; it’s not keeping up.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Ah, good point- I was mostly being hyperbolic to illustrate just how shitty the Reddit app was.

I think all the previous redditors did the same thing I did when signing up. Lemmy.world sounds the most general, so that’s the instance I used. I’ll give a smaller/more local one a try and see if that improves the performance!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I ran into the same issue with Lemmy.World. Tried switching to Beehaw.org first (before I learned that they had defederated from some of the bigger instances) and had my “application” rejected. Appears I didn’t provide good enough reasons for why I wanted to join their particular instance. To me, it just shouldn’t be that serious. Tried sh.it just.works and well, it works!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Try Liftoff it's what I've been using and it's wonderful. Elegant in its simplicity.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Regardless, I really don’t care much about the glitches or slowdown if it means I don’t have to see a full screen “He Gets Us” ad every two goddamn seconds.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago

I remember, I was on holiday 4 or 5 years ago. I was sitting at the bar having my morning coffee and browsing reddit and I was getting annoyed that if I went to get a drink from the bar when I came back and turned the screen back on it would reset my position in the comments.

So, I asked around and was recommended RIF. Not only did it keep comment position, but it was just all round in every single way better.

No, I couldn't go back to the official app.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Legit thought Lemmy was serving me an advert for a moment there...!

But yeah, the official R*ddit app is Garbo, they even bought Alien Blue years ago and have just failed to keep pace with Apollo, RIF or BaconReader. This API move is just a monopolisation of their content stream, hugely anti-competition.

Even if they sorted out their app, rolled back API to free, I'd never go back. Fuck Spez.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

While spez is indeed a truly horrible piece of work, we should also keep in mind that he wouldn't be doing this without having some serious backing from shareholders. CEOs are the public figure presented to us for the 2 minutes' hate but let's not forget that these decisions are taken in huge boardrooms. So maybe we should say 'fuck spez et al' instead of just 'fuck spez'.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah spez is just the figure head, if he got replaced nothing would be resolved.

It's not Fuck Spez, it's Fuck Reddit Inc.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine signing up to Reddit to discuss your gambling problems and then on the first sign on you get hit with this 💀💀

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're browsing /r/stopgambling? Here are some gambling ads for you!

This sort of thing happened several times over there. I'm making up this example (I think), but there were a few posts on the mod subs begging reddit not to do things like that.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

Yep since the first party app's primary goal is to generate revenue (over actually providing a good user experience), it's packed full of everything to achieve revenue generation:

  • Ads
  • Tons of tracking to figure out how long you viewed something, what you clicked on, and so on to build an advertising profile that can be sold
  • Obtrusive Ads
  • Lots of suggested/recommended stuff to get you to keep your eyeballs on the app longer
  • Ads masquerading as real submissions
  • Paid promotions

Third party apps don't have revenue generation as their sole highest priority (if at all), so naturally they strip out all of that stuff which makes for a terrible user experience.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your sacrifice. If I ever had a hint of an inclination to disregard the common wisdom and try reddit's official app, now it's permanently gone.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would fit perfectly now is Snapchat-like short vertical videos on repeat. Do it Reddit

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem is that Reddit Shorts is something I could ABSOLUTELY see happening in the near future

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda already exists. It’s called watch

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Every tech company currently is moving towards being a shitty Douyin/TikTok clone. How innovative.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At first I thought that was someone posting on lemmy… freaked me out, and I started looking for how to ban the content. 😂😂

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I had nearly the same reaction! Assumed it was Lemmy as well but on a specific app. Hopped in the comments to figure out which one to avoid, very relieved it's one that I'm already not using.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The only thing I miss about the official app is seeing those ads promoting Christianity and promptly reporting them as hate speech.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sucks. Thanks for posting a screenshot of an ad into my Lemmy feed, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I didn’t actually see it was from Reddit. I was like WTF, promoted ads here now.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My god, I now realize that when I was on reddit it was just super depressing posts about horrible events, on lemmy its actually ppl having fun

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

/r/all was unusable without Apollo letting me filter out 90% of the subs that show up there, all ragebait and reposts.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes I get a glimpse of what experiencing the Internet without an ad blocker looks like today and it kinda blows me away.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

It's simple, really.

  • if you have Reddit app installed, uninstall it first
  • download revanced manager and install the apk. https://revanced.app/
  • find Reddit app's apk in apkmirror.com and download it
  • open revanced manager and select Patcher -> "select an application" -> storage and select the downloaded Reddit apk.
  • make sure "disable ads" is in the list of selected patches
  • run the patcher, wait until it completed
  • don't install the resulting apk right away yet. Instead, open the "..." menu on the top right of the screen and backup the patched apk
  • close the revanced manager app and open your file manager. Locate the patched apk you just backed up in the download folder, then install it.

Note that I haven't actually tested this with actual Reddit app.

Edit: oops, replied to a wrong thread

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instructions unclear: iPhone now running Windows Subsystem for Android. Plz help.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you really need to access Reddit, I've been using libreddit.nl which you can install as an app like wefwef and it's ad-free :) but long live lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Don't post that junk on here! ;)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

We don't go to Ravenholm

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

if u liked RiF, Connect to Lemmy is a p good app. After messing w the settings browsing lemmy feels so much cleaner.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Man I hate the official reddit app so much. Random ads look like real posts.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow it looks awful. I miss RIF

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I have not gone there. I will not go there. Thank you for the post. It feels like an expose into a part of society that I will never cross paths with.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I couldn't even get pass the login screen since I only lurked and never made an account (despite spending over a decade browsing reddit). I remember they used to let you use the app without logging in.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Holy wow, I had actually forgotten how shitty the site had become. I was always ready to open it and quickly scroll a couple times to get past the initial garbage, to hopefully find something worthwhile. That ask reddit post is peak "help the AI write an article" trash.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

But did you get your cash price?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just saw the ad at first and froze up, thinking "shit Lemmy, already???"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That’s exactly why they want you to use it.

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