cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
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.
No no no. No. Never used the official app, but man… this is sad as hell. Just pulling up the screenshot made me scared my laptop was about to be bricked.
It literally looks like a pop-up ad straight out of 1999. If I saw this shit on a computer back then I’d be like “ope, that’s a virus.”
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It was this bad a few months ago when I used it as well. I saw almost nothing but gambling ads.
Seriously, I’ve used the app for a while before finding out about Sync back when I used Android, then Apollo on iOS. I almost never browsed on mobile before then, it’s absolutely terrible. I guess “normal” everyday users don’t care, because they don’t necessarily know they have alternatives, however. Guess this is what spez is banking on.
But even the “normal” users will notice the overall quality going to shit when all the people who were engaged are leaving.
Oh for sure. I’m sure they already noticed it. But I think a lot of users who are not so tech savvy will be rebutted by the whole “instance” and “federation” things. It’s not super intuitive for most people how it works yet
I assume some internet billionaire will eventually make another centralized platform for the Reddit crowd, and people will flock there. People will never learn from their past mistakes.
I used the official before switching to infinity. I didn’t mind the official app that much in the beginning. I hated the ads disgusted as posts and how the just got more and more post like as time went on. But I did like the app a lot better then the web site and I never really used Reddit on Mt computer.
Then I switched to Infinity, Loved it and could really see how bad the official app really was. So I just use infinity for some time.
Then I got tiered of opening reddit links from the web when searching for stuff, as it took me to the web site and the constant nagging about downloading the app, and making browsing on the website close to impossible. So I downloaded the official app again and use it to open posts from the web.
So I had the official one and Infinity together for a few days, it wasn’t fun to use the official app but it was a lot more of a pain to use the website.
Then I found out you could make infinity open reddit links, and I never used the official app again.
Yeah it’s especially egregious unless you browse in compact mode. Ads are much less noticeable
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.
Agreed. I hate teenagers.
Does pi-hole block the ads?
AdGuard does
Don’t think so. Ads are served by the same Reddit servers.
I bet Blokada does but I’m not willing to put the Reddit app on my phone to test it out.
Unfortunately not, mine doesn’t.
You can use Revanced with the official reddit app
Holy fuck, 90% of the screen is dedicated to ads
We found that we can push ads to up to 92% of visible area before the user starts convulsing in violent seizures.
Holy shit I remember that quote from Ready Player One and never thought I would be seeing the same scenario in such a short time period.
“So we decided to opt for 95%”
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.
It’s quite insane how awful AskReddit is. Same uninteresting questions with flat answers.
A decade or more ago, we called it AssCredit on IRC.
“Hey reddit what is the best spare tire iron?”
— Redditor with 1 month old account who’s only posted about IPayShills tire irons.
“The only brand of spare tire iron you should consider is IPayShills tire iron, it changed my life! It makes coffee, calls AAA for you and everything. I would never leave home without it.”
— Redditor with 1 month old account who’s only posted about IPayShills tire irons.
Wouldn’t surprise me if a vast majority of the posts on that sub come from bots.
This video is the greatest thing that Yahoo Answers has ever produced.
Jfc, apologies for the multipost. Anyways…
…can you burn a Luigi board?You wanna summon luigi?
…can you burn a Luigi board?
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I disagree and submit this as a counterpoint
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“Sex havers of Reddit, how is sex? Send bobs and vagene”- ask Reddit in a nutshell.
To be fair I was a horny teenager at one point but that’s what yahoo answers was for
Did you ever find out how is babby formed?
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.
Gross!
For a second I thought there was a promoted post on Lemmy and I got equal parts angry and confused.
