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

  • 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!