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

    • AllegedCoyote@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Also the “actual fucking content” is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.

      • b3nsn0w@pricefield.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        yeah, was gonna say that’s a user issue but it’s in the biggest scabreddit so that’s kind of on the admins too

    • RealNooshie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.

      • b3nsn0w@pricefield.orgEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        just reminds me to Nolan Sorrento from ready player one

        This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday’s ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures

        idk which one is more sad, that reddit is actually doing this or that i had to specify “ready player one” when looking up the exact quote because otherwise it referred me to completely serious marketing articles

          • Meldroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Or for really old-school nerds, Max Headroom. There were the Zik Zak “Blipvert” ads that were hyper-accelerated until they literally made people’s heads explode (like in Scanners).

  • Bazzatron@reddthat.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Legit thought Lemmy was serving me an advert for a moment there…!

    But yeah, the official R*ddit app is Garbo, they even bought Alien Blue years ago and have just failed to keep pace with Apollo, RIF or BaconReader. This API move is just a monopolisation of their content stream, hugely anti-competition.

    Even if they sorted out their app, rolled back API to free, I’d never go back. Fuck Spez.

    • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m using wefwef and the preview was perfectly cropped it looked like an ad as well. I was relieved it wasn’t.

    • SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      While spez is indeed a truly horrible piece of work, we should also keep in mind that he wouldn’t be doing this without having some serious backing from shareholders. CEOs are the public figure presented to us for the 2 minutes’ hate but let’s not forget that these decisions are taken in huge boardrooms. So maybe we should say ‘fuck spez et al’ instead of just ‘fuck spez’.

  • justdoit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    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

    • 98codes@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s not wefwef—that’s on lemmy.world; it’s not keeping up.

      • justdoit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        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!

        • Mystical_Toe_Cheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          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!

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Imagine signing up to Reddit to discuss your gambling problems and then on the first sign on you get hit with this 💀💀

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    2·
    1 year ago

    I remember, I was on holiday 4 or 5 years ago. I was sitting at the bar having my morning coffee and browsing reddit and I was getting annoyed that if I went to get a drink from the bar when I came back and turned the screen back on it would reset my position in the comments.

    So, I asked around and was recommended RIF. Not only did it keep comment position, but it was just all round in every single way better.

    No, I couldn’t go back to the official app.

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s simple, really.

    • if you have Reddit app installed, uninstall it first
    • download revanced manager and install the apk. https://revanced.app/
    • find Reddit app’s apk in apkmirror.com and download it
    • open revanced manager and select Patcher -> “select an application” -> storage and select the downloaded Reddit apk.
    • make sure “disable ads” is in the list of selected patches
    • run the patcher, wait until it completed
    • don’t install the resulting apk right away yet. Instead, open the “…” menu on the top right of the screen and backup the patched apk
    • close the revanced manager app and open your file manager. Locate the patched apk you just backed up in the download folder, then install it.

    Note that I haven’t actually tested this with actual Reddit app.

    Edit: oops, replied to a wrong thread

    • Darc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Instructions unclear: iPhone now running Windows Subsystem for Android. Plz help.

    • chri_ho@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That fixes the ads but still the official reddit app is a huge backstep from the now cutoff apps that made browsing reddit a pleasure. It’s just a rippoff off all the terible algorihtm based Facebook, Twitter and Instagram apps that constantly show me posts that i’ve neither subscribed to nor I am interested to see. It’s a shame.

      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        There is an option in revanced manager to patch reddit sync to use your own oauth client id. I just tried it out and the patched reddit sync just crashed when it start loading the frontpage. oh well.

        • PownyRyda@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Works perfectly fine for me. Did you use the right APK that’s linked in the Google Docs with the instructions?

          • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            I actually tried with latest version of Sync Dev already installed in my phone. What version are you using? Also, which google docs? I only follow the instruction in revanced manager that said to put the client id string in /data/storage/emulated/0/reddit_client_id_revanced.txt

    • R51@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      if u liked RiF, Connect to Lemmy is a p good app. After messing w the settings browsing lemmy feels so much cleaner.

      • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been having some html errors in Connect, I’m back on Jerboa for now. I like Connect’s UI a lot more though

        • RojaBunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Same here, I like Connect but I can’t load a single comment on there so for now I’m on Jerboa. TBD where I end up permanently though.

          • R51@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            I’m trying Thunder right now and this one is very nice as well. But I’m getting the same problems as Connect… I click on a post from my profile and it says the post doesn’t exist.

            At least on Thunder, it still loads the main post and I can scroll to my comment (which is how I’m replying to you. On Connect, my comment doesn’t even show up and other comments are missing.

            I really do like thunder though so far it’s #1

            • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I switched to the browser on my phone. All these apps are half finished right now. Which is completely fine, and understandable. But the actual site on a browser is “feature complete” and easy to use.

  • _tinker_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The only thing I miss about the official app is seeing those ads promoting Christianity and promptly reporting them as hate speech.

  • walderan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thank you for your sacrifice. If I ever had a hint of an inclination to disregard the common wisdom and try reddit’s official app, now it’s permanently gone.

  • lordgeoffery@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    The reddit app is garbage compared to other offerings. Too bad they fucked the whole API thing for the 3rd party apps

    • Traegs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Right now Relay for Reddit is working on a subscription model and has been granted a extension period. It’s currently free to use. Not sure if I’ll bother paying for it to stay on Reddit, but for now I can still use Reddit without the official app.

      • lordgeoffery@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Cool. I didn’t know this! At least some good news for now. I’m digging the Lemmy. It’s pretty easy

  • keenkoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • bi_tux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      06·
      1 year ago

      It is already independent, people just do the stuff they used to do on reddit (eg: complaining about reddit)