That's why no one with half a brain downloads the official Reddit app.
That's why no one with half a brain downloads the official Reddit app.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.
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'd legitimately never seen what the Reddit app looks like as I always used RIF but good grief it's actually somehow worse than I'd been led to believe.
There’s zero chance I’m installing that app. Reddit is officially a cash grab that doesn’t deserve one letter of my content.
Prior to the whole API debacle, I loved Reddit and used it daily.
BTW, I still won’t use Sony products to this day because they put rootkits on their audio CDs to prevent piracy.
It's worse then you think. That "popular" screen is what's popular to all of Reddit determined by their algorithm, not what's popular in the subreddits you have subscribed to. There's no way to avoid the firehose of whatever they want to feed you, you can only go to a specific subreddit in the app instead.
It's basically unusable for me in this state.
Someone should file a bug report, some content accidentally got displayed instead of more ads...
I do like how lemmy is gaining quite a bit of traction. I would rather be here than reddit. The official app sucks ass!
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.
Yeah it’s especially egregious unless you browse in compact mode. Ads are much less noticeable
The ads are real bad if you don’t pay to not see them, and trending is dumb, but the most egregious thing is that you can’t sort your Home feed. It is stuck to “best” and the algorithm is terrible.
It used to have the ability to sort, but they removed it at some point, I’m not sure when because I had been using Apollo for years.
I took a look at the last iteration of Alien Blue (which can still be downloaded if you had it at some point but you can’t log into it anymore) and that 2014 app is still better.
It just makes me sad.
I thought this was rhe YouTube app at first glace. Damn, as a boost user I wasn't aware how bad it is.
I tried it about 4 times, thinking I was missing something. How on earth could something so bad, possibly be popular? But I realised I'd just got used to RIF. The official app is absolutely dire.
I thought this was an advertisement and i tried to block you.......
It makes you feel that something is wrong with your device.
I'm so glad I've never even touched it to begin with, and I'm not inclined too after the migration. I live here now.
You know, I didn't start using reddit apps for awhile, and I was a late reddit comer in general. So the official app was my first and only experience, I used it for years.
Yes it is just like that.
bots reposting bots replying to bots up voting bots
and an ad
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It really is, just dropped reddit for this. Not about to go back to using the official app.
Not to mention they stupidly made it so Chat auto-notifies you by default now, so if you forgot you joined any of those you'll get your phone lighting up out of nowhere like a reply all if someone says literally anything in one of those.
Their app is truly awful, and on mobile, they always try to shunt you off your browser and onto it.
You can use Revanced Manager to patch the officel Reddit app to remove all ads and trackers from it. Such a scummy platform
I haven’t been on that app for years but ouch, does it look bad
Agreed. I hate teenagers.
Looks disgusting 🤢
The ad takes up more than half the screen lmfao
High quality advertisers...
For a second I thought there was a promoted post on Lemmy and I got equal parts angry and confused.
It was this bad a few months ago when I used it as well. I saw almost nothing but gambling ads.
He gets us.
I'm gonna be honest with ya'll, even before all this 3rd party app stuff I never understood why anyone would use an app to view a fucking website. It's like thinking "yes, let me seek and purposely download spyware on my phone to have a worse user experience and see the same thing I can see in my browser without ads"
My hearts hurt and my eye is broken.
I never used it personally.
I've been dodging and dodging and dodging from using that shitty app for months. When I try posting to other subreddits whenever I have had it installed, none of my posts would go through. I'm always left to post links, for some reason, but not text based posts. That's how broken it is and they've never fixed it because they don't care.
I'm so glad to be out of that hell.
Wow they oops forgot their forum is an empty box without its users' input. Way to chase any sane user away
Gross!
I usually find the app and the web site are usually essentially the same on most platforms, plus most apps are designed for data farming, so to me, most apps are moot in function, and nothing but a security hole. You're going to have to do better than just not interrupting me as I come in to announce your app to get me to use it.
I've sideloaded a patched version of Apollo on my phone and it's been a nicer experience (though it has limitations obviously). I am certain it will get revoked eventually. But it's the best option for me right now. There is a way to patch Android APKs. Not sure if I should share since it technically involves a form of piracy. But if you google it, it's definitely doable.
Wow, that's awful. I just use Firefox mobile + Adblock, which isn't very nice to reddit, but at least allows a somewhat decent experience - except for missing features like /r/Subreddit/comments, for which you have to go in Desktop mode.
Magnificent
JFC. That's like a 3/5th screen advertisement with enough room for 1 fucking post. Might as well only show ads at that point.
Holy shit there's Castle Tumbler? Sign me back up!
I only have it downloads for pne subreddit that hasn't switched over to lemmy yet
Way to pick the busiest screen. Popular? Who uses that option anyway... has that Trending panel at the top making it look like a circus. App defaults to Home, which is much cleaner. Nice you picked the absolute worst screen possible.