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Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

How dare you make a woke app. /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American “conservatives” are a scourge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

All of them are

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 20 hours ago

It is. Lemmy is further left, but Reddit is absolutely left of center.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Tell me you don't know how reddit works without saying you don't know how reddit works."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm giving 1-star ratings to weather apps because it's too cold outside.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You joke but meteorologists have received threats because they forecast bad weather on special events.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This was so bad, that one of the local meteorologists took to making a promo bump with a sarcastic "Thanks Delkis" anytime the weather report was on. It was hilarious hearing him explain that people complained that HE was in charge of the weather.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This person sounds insane like one of those people who lives in an RV with signs all over it talking about 5G nanobots and how water causes cancer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

There's a park in my area. Literally every time I have been there, over several years, there is a van in the parking lot. It has a wire mesh bust of Hillary Clinton on top, and is covered with writings about various conspiracy theories about her, and slogans like "Hillary for Jail!"

Possibly the craziest thing I've ever seen.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

They probably don't understand how anything works because they think learning about stuff is "wOkE" and anyone who disagrees with them is a "leftist".

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

You can report these.

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

What a dipshit...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I hope there’s a way to have the review removed for being irrelevant. I love your app btw, please keep it up. The only issue that’s kinda annoying right now is that I lose my place in the feed when I swipe back out from a post.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see this all the time on user reviews. A quarter of them are just people bitching about partisan politics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How do these apps still work? Aren't the apis fucked? Is this just some fancy browser with extra steps?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm on Android so I didn't look into OP's app. I just went looking into it after this post. Apparently if you create your own developer app ID and patch an app to use yours instead, I guess your usage is too low for Reddit to bill. Something like that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Boost on Android still works if you mod any subreddits.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's super dumb. Also, I thought there weren't 3rd party Reddit apps anymore? Do you not still have to pay for the API?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Third party apps with small users bases or ones that are used by people with disabilities (that have disability features) still work. For now. Also apps that allow for a read only view (meaning they can't be used to sign in, write/post comments, or upvote/downvote) also still work I believe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

There's a few tricks around it. Web scraping, for example. I could also see like a webview portal with a custom layout

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Seconded, it's amazing for occasional reddit use when you don't want your eyeballs seared by the normal interface!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're responding to a Steve sock puppet account. It might not be him on the other end, likely it isn't, but it's his. He wants all the money and doesn't like to share because he's a greedy little pigboy.

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

No reason to engage an idiot, not like you're going to change his mind.

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

That's not the point. When you respond to reviews like this the goal is to point out to everyone else who might be reading it that the reviewer is in fact a nut, and therefore their opinion should be discarded out of hand.

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