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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.
The only post visible between ads is one that's been reposted thousands of times... This perfectly captures the steaming pile of shit that is the official app (and the reddit experience in general).
The official app is a horrible user experience, but the bigger issue is that most of the content is fake. Between commercial shills, political activists, social-media marketing groups hired to “increase engagement”, and various other bad actors, the site is no longer useful or differentiated. The only places that seem unaffected are smaller private subs.
I don’t know how the fediverse will prevent the same thing happening. The bad actors are just going to follow the eyeballs. They don’t care which platform is used to host their actions. There was already an instance of a group of new kbin accounts being used to mass upvote topics to appear in the hot feed here.
Through vigilance and a strong community that looks out for itself. Just like IRL
Seriously, why the fuck has advertising become so incredibly insidious and pervasive in recent years? I can't go anywhere on the internet and not see ads or a warning to turn off my ad blocker or message telling me to subscribe to view the content. Worse, I can't even be out in public in the city without having another fucking ad shoved in my face. I was recently walking downtown at 1 am or so waiting on an uber and really enjoying the cool night air, not on my phone or anything, just enjoying the moment, and I saw an insanely bright billboard advertising something.
I feel like ads are just starting to really wear on me. I'm sick of consuming and being told to consume and being manipulated in the death throes of capitalism.
Edit:spelling
I don't think this is something new... Lots of webpages had tons of ads in the 90s and 2000's.
Yahoo 2002: Yahoo 2002
Or this one from the wall street journal in 2000: WSJ 2000
Compare those to today: Yahoo Today
I don't think it's any worse today really.
It is worse, though. No Yahoo games 😭 I played that flash pool game to death.
Once you get used to an ad-free Reddit experience, it's truly jarring how many ads the official Reddit app has. Same with Youtube. I have Adblock for Youtube on my computer and when I use the Youtube app on my TV I'm astounded by the number of ads being greedily shoved down my face.
I really can't do ads. I use Blokada on my android phone and that killed all the ads from reddit regardless of which app I used, but the actual reddit app was just terrible in and of itself. There were so many better choices.
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Holy fuck, 90% of the screen is dedicated to ads
Remember to leave a review and uninstall.
one post. ONE SINGLE POST on the entire screen...
And it's a question that's been asked every single week for 10 years.
Also it's kind of crazy to me the amount of traffic it gets every. Single. Time. I know they have a bot issue, but do people just like that they know they have a popular opinion and just want to see rhe up votes or is it just one of those "watch the same movie 15 times for the comfort of it" type things. Either way I find it wild.
Everyone who didn’t get their word in last time is desperate to ~~farm upvotes~~ ‘make themselves visible’ this time instead.
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It makes you feel that something is wrong with your device.
I did. And now I'm here :D Got my half brain back
And this is my first comment on Lemmy and I'm loving this place.
Can we stop posting Reddit's ads here please
Hot shingles in your area download for free X
The worst part to me is the people still on Reddit complaining about the blackout because "you can scroll past the ads", which completely misses the point
Ive seen a post in programming dev instance that those posts we were seeign, shilling for reddit was proven to be astroturfed using LLM to generate the pro reddit reply
It was this bad a few months ago when I used it as well. I saw almost nothing but gambling ads.
bots reposting bots replying to bots up voting bots
and an ad
charge your phone OP
OP is using the official Reddit app. Probably charged it a few hours ago.
I have half a brain yet did download the app to see how shitty it really is. Rip RIF.
Rif is still working for me logged out. I've heard it doesn't work logged in, but I haven't tried it recently.
I mostly used slide before and that doesn't seem to work at all now.
Reddit offline also seems to still work for me.
Reddit "shut down" API access by disabling the ability to authenticate users. Everything else on the API is still fully functional. Of course, without being logged in it's a read only API.
RIF is never going to pay $0.24 per 1,000 API requests. Which means Reddit isn't going to allow those API requests to continue for long. They will shut it down even when you're logged out.
Tbh I only downloaded the official app because I didn't know there were 3rd party apps at all I only learned about the 3rd party apps when the protests started
You went from discovering 3rd party reddit apps to posting on lemmy?
Yea I guess that just goes to show just how fast reddit became shitty it's seems like all the good memes left with the 3rd party apps Edit: spelling corrections
Never used the app, never plan to, but I can't even handle the main site now. Have (diagnosed) PTSD due to religious trauma, and those fucking unblockable "He Gets Us" ads are intolerable.
As a former user of Baconreader for 11 years, and old.reddit + RES for about the same, this was what did it for me.
I refuse to be served hegetSus ads.
That's why I used third-party app all the time, never used their official Reddit app from day one to the day I came to Lemmy
Same, it took me a minute to understand what I was looking at. If that is what the official r3dd!t app looks like, I'm glad I jumped ship the day baconreader went offline.
You won't have ads if you pay the subscription or install a system level as blocker
In my experience reddits ads are served from reddit itself, so even my pihole does not block it.
yeah pretty sure this is correct, cant even block that shit with dns ad blocker
I'm so glad to be out of that hell.