I guess your wife is also using Windows and a web browser without ad blocker. People get used to having ads and messages thrown in their face constantly.

But once you try Lemmy, you see how nice things can be.

It was dogshit since release yes

I patched it using revanced manager to remove ads. But it’s a buggy mess. The only good “feature” is inline image comments.

It’s much slower. And the small font makes it a pain to read long posts and comments.

I think it’s a huge battery drain compared to all the alternatives, liftoff for example with Lemmy despite using it just as much as I did the official app in testing consumed less than half the battery life. Apollo also consumed about half of the official Reddit app while using Reddit so I dunno.

Also the constant promoted posts are just horrible to deal with.

I was fine with the official app until my main feed got filled with junk from places I didn’t want follow or want to follow. Once I switched to a third party app I saw how cluttered the offical app looked and never wanted to switch back.

For some reason, it was using all the data I had when browsing

It sucks to use for one reason. The comment chains are difficult to look at since they’re not colored (I used Reddit’s app months ago so it might have changed).

Drinking water is fine, just like the Reddit app is fine. Wait until you try coffee, mango lassi, milk and all the other beverages available.

Actually no, the Reddit app is actively assaulting you with ads an BS notifications, so it’s more like dirty water and it certainly isn’t fine once you’ve tried clean water. However, I still really like mango lassi, but too bad Reddit chopped down all the mango trees.

The more I use Lemmy apps (favorite is Infinity), the more I realize what an awful experience the official Reddit app is. It’s so sluggish in a subtle way, it makes me tired to scroll. Plus, there’s tons of clutter, nothing is where it should be (e.g. r/all is at the very bottom of the left slider menu), and the app behaves in weird little ways (e.g. if you unmute a video, all your videos are now unmuted even if they’re autoplaying in the feed).

Biggest offender is the ads. All over the feed and comments, created on purpose to blend in so you don’t immediately realize you’re being advertised to. But other than that, the official Reddit app is enshittification by a thousand little shitty design decisions.

For me the worse thing is that you are browsing your front page and they add posts from other subs, ads, etc, so at the end it feels you are browsing all. Maybe for some that is not a big deal, but for me it is.

Put it like this. I was so mad about losing Sync that I downloaded the reddit app just to give it a 1 star review and then delete it.

When I downloaded the official reddit app, I found that I had already given it a 1 star review a year or two before this whole situation.

The official app is and has always been garbage.

por que no los dos?

Fine is a good description of it. I used to use it and it was fine, not excellent not horrible, just fine. Then after quite some time I looked into 3th party apps, mostly because I got tiered of how all ads became more and more disguised as normal posts.

I liked Infinity so I stuck with that for some time. Then I switched back to the official one as reading posts on the browser from mobil got worse and worse and I couldn’t open the links in Infinity. The official app was ones again fine, a lot worse then Infinity but it was fine.

Then I figured out that you can make Infinity open reddit links and I switched back to Infinity again.

Then Reddit did what it did and now I use RedReader to read some communities that didn’t move.

The video player rarely works properly, ads are pretty egregious, it’s hard to navigate with so much stuff bloating the UX, there are literal NFTs, and the app is generally much slower in general. And that’s just the app itself.

Why wait, tho.

That’s the words I used too lol.