Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.

  • @[email protected]English
    223•1 year ago

    I’m one of the few that never used the third party apps for Reddit during my time there. Only the official app. And even I could tell you that app was miserable. No exaggeration, every third post is a massive ad. Once you’ve scrolled far enough your entire feed becomes ads. You have to close out/refresh to make it go back to normal.

    Wefwef is a glitchy web app that doesn’t let me scroll or post comments sometimes made and maintained by some dude in his basement, and it’s still preferable to the official app of a company seeking a multimillion dollar IPO

      • @[email protected]English
        28•1 year ago

        Ah, good point- I was mostly being hyperbolic to illustrate just how shitty the Reddit app was.

        I think all the previous redditors did the same thing I did when signing up. Lemmy.world sounds the most general, so that’s the instance I used. I’ll give a smaller/more local one a try and see if that improves the performance!

        • @[email protected]English
          19•1 year ago

          I ran into the same issue with Lemmy.World. Tried switching to Beehaw.org first (before I learned that they had defederated from some of the bigger instances) and had my “application” rejected. Appears I didn’t provide good enough reasons for why I wanted to join their particular instance. To me, it just shouldn’t be that serious. Tried sh.it just.works and well, it works!

        • @[email protected]English
          16•1 year ago

          That’s how I wound up on lemm.ee—US hosted, not the biggest one, with admins that seem to give a damn was good enough for me.

        • FarLine99English
          1•1 year ago

          lemm.ee is really good, fast, mature instance with good admin. Not ad, unfortunately 😁

      • @b3nsn0wAEnglish
        15•1 year ago

        this. the corpos have pushed us to apps so much that many of us forgot that web browsers are very much an option.

        lemmy has been the only thing that made me open the regular firefox in a long time. for the most part, i use firefox focus, because everything you wanna stay logged into makes you use an app. no exaggeration there. but lemmy’s web ui actually works because it’s been made by people who just want you to be able to use it, not people who want you to sell you on an app instead that can track you way better than your browser would ever allow.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s got some odd jumps sometimes when upvoting or expanding images but otherwise it works pretty good

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        I tried out different apps because of the autoloading of new posts that happens on the site. I think that might have been fixed in the update, but now I’m having issues logging into lemmy.world on the site, because if the update. I keep reminding myself it’s early days and things will get smoother soon.

    • Sephtis-6
      12•1 year ago

      not saying wefwef is perfect(i personally can’t use it bc use kbin and not lemmy) but it will probably improve a ton since there are many new people joining lemmy/kbin

    • ChamrsDeluxeEnglish
      32•1 year ago

      Try Liftoff it’s what I’ve been using and it’s wonderful. Elegant in its simplicity.

      • ElTacoEsMiPastorEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        On Liftoff it’s needed to be logged in on every instance (it handles multiple accounts), so I don’t find it convenient even though I admire how polished the interface is.

      • @[email protected]English
        18•1 year ago

        I’ll check it out, thanks!

        Regardless, I really don’t care much about the glitches or slowdown if it means I don’t have to see a full screen “He Gets Us” ad every two goddamn seconds.

        • EchEnglish
          8•1 year ago

          I gotta ask, why did you never look at third-party options if you found it so miserable?

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 year ago

            The Memmy TestFlight is full at the moment, but should be on the App Store soon. I highly recommend it.

            Mlem and wefwef started good, but imo, they’re not there yet. They both look good, but are still missing a lot of my preferred functionality. Development also seems slow compared to Memmy too, but Memmy’s dev is also a machine pumping out updates every day.

      • ElTacoEsMiPastorEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        On Liftoff it’s needed to be logged in on every instance (it handles multiple accounts), so I don’t find it convenient even though I admire how polished the interface is.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      As someone that only used the official app on iOS, I have to disagree. For me every 9 or 10 posts in the feed there was a “promoted” post. Using the compact view they aren’t huge ads like OPs one here, just like any other text post but they say “promoted” so you know it’s an ad. Also never had this “entire feed becomes ads” either.

      • redcalciumEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Given how buggy it is, it’s entirely possible. Also, ad targeting exists. He could be a member of specific demographics (age, income, location) being targeted by a lot of ads, thus he ended up seeing a lot of ads.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      I was using Jerboa but just started using wefwef a couple days ago. I really like the look and feel, plus sorting Top by 1/6/12 hours is dope, since I tend to see a lot of new stuff when I was just doing Top by day.

    • Amilo159English
      2•1 year ago

      You should try Lift Off for Lemmy, it’s really good.