There’s a few communities that haven’t made their way anywhere else at the moment, so I check in occasionally. No matter how much I want to engage with those communities though, the app keeps driving me away.
It has mind bogglingly dumb features like: muting the music you’re listening to, broken images, battery drain, being generally sluggish. That’s on top of sponsored posts, suggested posts and a terrible blocking system
I had hated that aspect of Twitter which is what chased me away to stopping use of an actual account altogether and settling for nitter instead to keep track of accounts but no longer participating. But, it was so much better with how clean it was with apps like Fritter or RSS done through nitter instances so I only saw what I wanted. Now that’s looking like method is reaching its end.
The clutter they tried to push on me wasn’t worth consuming the material the official way anymore.
It was what killed Instagram for me years back too when they killed chronological feeds. Then I deleted the account and moved to using barnista to follow accounts without an account. Then that died and I just dropped Instagram altogether and didn’t look back, since I wasn’t going to make an account again and consume things the official way.
I wonder what percentage of the ones who were protesting the api but chose to stay and be active on reddit ended up downloading the official app.
There’s a few communities that haven’t made their way anywhere else at the moment, so I check in occasionally. No matter how much I want to engage with those communities though, the app keeps driving me away.
It has mind bogglingly dumb features like: muting the music you’re listening to, broken images, battery drain, being generally sluggish. That’s on top of sponsored posts, suggested posts and a terrible blocking system
I had hated that aspect of Twitter which is what chased me away to stopping use of an actual account altogether and settling for nitter instead to keep track of accounts but no longer participating. But, it was so much better with how clean it was with apps like Fritter or RSS done through nitter instances so I only saw what I wanted. Now that’s looking like method is reaching its end.
The clutter they tried to push on me wasn’t worth consuming the material the official way anymore.
It was what killed Instagram for me years back too when they killed chronological feeds. Then I deleted the account and moved to using barnista to follow accounts without an account. Then that died and I just dropped Instagram altogether and didn’t look back, since I wasn’t going to make an account again and consume things the official way.
The official app is full of so much garbage… Even if you remove the ads on Android with the ReVanced manager.
Within the first 10 posts you see, there is always a ‘suggested’ one that is more than 5 days old. Who wants that?
It almost feels like playing a flashy mobile game that wants you to spend money on every corner. It’s insane.