Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
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What would fit perfectly now is Snapchat-like short vertical videos on repeat. Do it Reddit
The problem is that Reddit Shorts is something I could ABSOLUTELY see happening in the near future
They already had RPAN which was basically the livestreaming part of Reddit. It was okay, some fun shitposty streams. I stopped using it after I started using old.reddit + Apollo.
and it’ll just be photos of dudes in cargo shorts.
Kinda already exists. It’s called watch
Every tech company currently is moving towards being a shitty Douyin/TikTok clone. How innovative.
The doomscroll is all there is. The good news about that is that anyone can emulate it.
I mean, that’s what a lot of people like, can’t really blame them. And besides, more competition/less revenue to TikTok is always a plus.
what really makes me sick is – these fucking people are completely devoid of any taste or pride or care. it looks like absolute fucking garbage and they do not care; they’re wealthy beyond belief WITH OR WITHOUT destroying reddit, but still, they must.
haha “reddit bad”, he did the funny!
Look, I also dislike reddit, but lemmy should really grow out of being a reddit complaining site and become independent on it’s own.
It is already independent, people just do the stuff they used to do on reddit (eg: complaining about reddit)
For me it’s all the stupid nfts.
I couldn’t even get pass the login screen since I only lurked and never made an account (despite spending over a decade browsing reddit). I remember they used to let you use the app without logging in.
You don’t need to care about posters leaving if you don’t show content in your app taps forehead
Yep since the first party app’s primary goal is to generate revenue (over actually providing a good user experience), it’s packed full of everything to achieve revenue generation:
- Ads
- Tons of tracking to figure out how long you viewed something, what you clicked on, and so on to build an advertising profile that can be sold
- Obtrusive Ads
- Lots of suggested/recommended stuff to get you to keep your eyeballs on the app longer
- Ads masquerading as real submissions
- Paid promotions
Third party apps don’t have revenue generation as their sole highest priority (if at all), so naturally they strip out all of that stuff which makes for a terrible user experience.
Oh wow I’ve not seen the official app in years. That’s insane, who on earth is happy using this!?
Sadly, there’s a shit ton of people who don’t know any better and will stick with reddit as it slowly dies
@RealNooshie looks awful. Literally not a single thing you actually subscribed to. Not to mention the actual content is almost nothing (that single post at the top from r/AskReddit)
If you really need to access Reddit, I’ve been using libreddit.nl which you can install as an app like wefwef and it’s ad-free :) but long live lemmy
Redreader is still working. Seems like a weird loophole, but Reddit is allowing it.
Yeah it was white listed for accessibility
😱 r/pics is a NSFW community! This instance of Libreddit is SFW-only.
hmmmm…
You can use mine
Just use another instance. You can find a list at https://farside.link
Ooof. I’d rather use old.reddit.com on my phone’s browser and that looks like shit. Really looking forward to the Sync for Lemmy app.
Me, using cleaned-up reddit on browser is the only way I’d use it. I preferred it even to RIF sometimes.
How would you clean it up for a mobile browser?
adblock everything except content on mobile browser, that’s how i used to do it, nowadays i don’t use reddit much so idk how it would go with the new status, i know they returned the old mobile web app but they may have removed access to nsfw on it. i even adblocked awards, chat, anything that wasn’t vanilla reddit.
The Reddit app is such unusable garbage filled with annoying ads.
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
The regular Lemmy web UI is pretty decent IMO
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.
Yeah, it’s got some odd jumps sometimes when upvoting or expanding images but otherwise it works pretty good
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.
The admin has been dealing with memory leak from what I read earlier
You should try Lift Off for Lemmy, it’s really good.
Give Connect a try. Also try Liftoff. Both very good apps.
Connect is working well for me atm.
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.
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.
That’s not wefwef—that’s on lemmy.world; it’s not keeping up.
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!
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.
Same. Started on lemmy.world which was great and all, but switched to feddit.nl since it’s closest to me, smaller and works faster for me. There are a lot of servers out there so we can spread the workload.
Aussie.zone for me.
I lucked into lemm.ee and it’s been great. I decided to kick a few dollars in a month because hey why not? Highly recommend.
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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!
Fixed link: https://sh.itjust.works/
lol, it’s spez
Even he knows reddit is a sinking ship.
I ended up just setting up my own instance. Wefwef is speedy since I’m not hosting other users or any communities. I tried the native iOS apps but prefer wefwef.
Yeah I’ll probably end up doing this eventually, just hope there’s a way to migrate my account when I do.
Yeah I’ll probably end up doing this eventually, just hope there’s a way to migrate my account when I do.
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
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.
Try Liftoff it’s what I’ve been using and it’s wonderful. Elegant in its simplicity.
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Try Memmy. Pretty close to the Apollo experience imo.
Memmy is my new favorite app. Ticks all the right boxes with some minor annoyances. I’m spending way too much time in it 😄
Beta is full
I believe the app is under review to be placed in the App Store so hopefully will be available to everyone soon.
It said that for me too yesterday but then later that day I found a different link that let me join the testflight beta
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.
I gotta ask, why did you never look at third-party options if you found it so miserable?
I’m a strong creature of habit :/
Fair enough. Glad you got out!
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.
Looks like this is Android only. Us iOS users stuck using wefwef.
Memmy or mlem on iOS. Try those.
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.
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.
That’s exactly why they want you to use it.
Def trash.
