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

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 year ago (7 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] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 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] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s how I wound up on lemm.ee—US hosted, not the biggest one, with admins that seem to give a damn was good enough for me.

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[–] Mystical_Toe_Cheese 7 points 1 year ago (4 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] 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 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.

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

I gotta ask, why did you never look at third-party options if you found it so miserable?

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

I’m a strong creature of habit :/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

not saying wefwef is perfect(i personally can't use it bc use kbin and not lemmy) but it will probably improve a ton since there are many new people joining lemmy/kbin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Give Connect a try. Also try Liftoff. Both very good apps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The regular Lemmy web UI is pretty decent IMO

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who the fuck designed this?

[–] [email protected] 97 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] 18 points 1 year ago (2 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] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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

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

By the way, it seems like the comments to that post could be also generated/copy-pasted by other bots… and another set of bots +1 that comments :0/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My 18mth deep depression exacerbated by doom-scrolling Reddit 12hrs per day may have been a fucking bot psyop to make me miserable. Lemmy has been a huge boost to my mood. Feel like I'm waking from a coma since coming here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wow I'm sorry. My Reddit app just stopped working and the app said "hey what about Lemmy" so now I'm here.

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[–] [email protected] 42 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] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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] 74 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] 41 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] 18 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It was the top post in my feed so I thought I had somehow opened the reddit app by accident even though I've uninstalled it.

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[–] azvasKvklenko 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 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] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda already exists. It’s called watch

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

They already had RPAN which was basically the livestreaming part of Reddit. It was okay, some fun shitposty streams. I stopped using it after I started using old.reddit + Apollo.

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[–] [email protected] 36 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.

[–] walderan 31 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] 24 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] 11 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.

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

If you didn't log into the apps, official or third party, r/All was absolutely depressing. Apollo at least gave me the ability to filter r/All when I did check it.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay 15% is not the worst it could be at lol

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

Yeah, it could be at 14%! D:

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

The reddit app is garbage compared to other offerings. Too bad they fucked the whole API thing for the 3rd party apps

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

But did you get your cash price?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

We don't go to Ravenholm

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Good god, that content is so awful. Sports, shootings, parenting. So glad we have Lemmy. It feels more like the old internet where it's mostly tech nerd focused.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I was so confused for a few seconds, thought there were ads in my Lemmy app…

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

I got rid of it 2 years ago for Apollo and tried it again briefly last month.

Somehow it got significantly worse, you can’t even choose how to sort your feed anymore.

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