cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
Wow they oops forgot their forum is an empty box without its users’ input. Way to chase any sane user away
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.
I haven’t been on that app for years but ouch, does it look bad
Agreed. I hate teenagers.
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.
Holy shit there’s Castle Tumbler? Sign me back up!
Does pi-hole block the ads?
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.
AdGuard does
Unfortunately not, mine doesn’t.
You can use Revanced with the official reddit app
It’s quite insane how awful AskReddit is. Same uninteresting questions with flat answers.
“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?
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.
…can you burn a Luigi board?
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I disagree and submit this as a counterpoint
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Jfc, apologies for the multipost. Anyways…
…can you burn a Luigi board?You wanna summon luigi?
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
Yeah and that works really well!
/s
It generally does, people just have to constantly be reminded.
Definitely agree that it’s a matter of time. You forgot one thing in your list of primary content producers on reddit; bots…
So much of the front page’s content is just produced by repost/karma farming bots, especially in the biggest subreddits.
For a second I thought there was a promoted post on Lemmy and I got equal parts angry and confused.
Gross!
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.
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The browser made by this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
No thanks, I’ll stick with firefox
what’s he doing wrong? that’s just a wiki page…
edit anwser: nothing to do with privacy or bad software. just a personal opinion, against the current flow
against the current flow
I’m confused, do you think homophobia is gonna come back into fashion?
He got kicked out of Mozilla for homophobia.
He also made javascript, which is about as bad (/s)
Why is that a crime?
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.
