• GONADS125@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The only post visible between ads is one that’s been reposted thousands of times… This perfectly captures the steaming pile of shit that is the official app (and the reddit experience in general).

    • PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The official app is a horrible user experience, but the bigger issue is that most of the content is fake. Between commercial shills, political activists, social-media marketing groups hired to “increase engagement”, and various other bad actors, the site is no longer useful or differentiated. The only places that seem unaffected are smaller private subs.

      I don’t know how the fediverse will prevent the same thing happening. The bad actors are just going to follow the eyeballs. They don’t care which platform is used to host their actions. There was already an instance of a group of new kbin accounts being used to mass upvote topics to appear in the hot feed here.

    • Timn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The NHL is basically unavailable to those people. Everywhere you look is a betting ad, and the official channels and radio stations give you the betting lines for games constantly.

  • Thurkeau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I usually find the app and the web site are usually essentially the same on most platforms, plus most apps are designed for data farming, so to me, most apps are moot in function, and nothing but a security hole. You’re going to have to do better than just not interrupting me as I come in to announce your app to get me to use it.

  • BattleGrown@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Downloaded today to see after Boost went down. Immediately uninstalled as it made my phone burning hot. Came to Lemmy very quickly.

    • duckman2712@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I had the Reddit app installed alongside boost. I deleted the official app last month and said that when boost dies, there goes my 10 year association with reddit.

      Here I am. I really hope Lemmy becomes something special because this far, it is filling that doom scrolling void that reddit filled for me

      • Ishigami@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Boost was the sole way of using reddit. Now if I REALLY need to find something on reddit, I’ll do that on old reddit, on my PC. Will save a lot of time by not being on that shit app.

  • Tygr@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    There’s zero chance I’m installing that app. Reddit is officially a cash grab that doesn’t deserve one letter of my content.

    Prior to the whole API debacle, I loved Reddit and used it daily.

    BTW, I still won’t use Sony products to this day because they put rootkits on their audio CDs to prevent piracy.

    • Killer_Tree@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Don’t forget that when Sony got called on it, they released a “patch” to “fix” people’s PCs. Except the “patch” was an installer for an even worse rootkit.

      This was all before Sony further proved they don’t value they customers by hosting an insecure network that, once hacked, revealed they stored all user information (including payment details and passwords iirc) in plaintext. Yeah, I’ve missed out on some fun games but I don’t give Sony a dime.

      • Tygr@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Glad I’m not the only one who remembers and blacklisted the entire company. It was such an egregious violation of privacy, people’s hardware and all the other stuff you’ve mentioned.

        I only brought it up because I’m not a typical person that forgets after a month and goes back to the company. I’m done, done. That triple-down they did was enough for me to call it quits.

    • hydra@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been buying Sony headphones because they sound great for the price but they ALWAYS fail at the same plastic left ear hinge within 1 year or usually less. No more.

    • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I used the official before switching to infinity. I didn’t mind the official app that much in the beginning. I hated the ads disgusted as posts and how the just got more and more post like as time went on. But I did like the app a lot better then the web site and I never really used Reddit on Mt computer.

      Then I switched to Infinity, Loved it and could really see how bad the official app really was. So I just use infinity for some time.

      Then I got tiered of opening reddit links from the web when searching for stuff, as it took me to the web site and the constant nagging about downloading the app, and making browsing on the website close to impossible. So I downloaded the official app again and use it to open posts from the web.

      So I had the official one and Infinity together for a few days, it wasn’t fun to use the official app but it was a lot more of a pain to use the website.

      Then I found out you could make infinity open reddit links, and I never used the official app again.

    • Xeelee@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      But even the “normal” users will notice the overall quality going to shit when all the people who were engaged are leaving.

  • tiny_fingers@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    JFC. That’s like a 3/5th screen advertisement with enough room for 1 fucking post. Might as well only show ads at that point.

  • ShadowDonut@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The worst part to me is the people still on Reddit complaining about the blackout because “you can scroll past the ads”, which completely misses the point

    • Thunder_Caulk@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Ive seen a post in programming dev instance that those posts we were seeign, shilling for reddit was proven to be astroturfed using LLM to generate the pro reddit reply

      • Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        And all it did was make Reddit even worse. If that was spez’s best attempt at user retention, then no wonder the Reddit experience keeps going down the drain.