Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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.
Try Liftoff it’s what I’ve been using and it’s wonderful. Elegant in its simplicity.
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!
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Try Memmy. Pretty close to the Apollo experience imo.
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
Memmy is my new favorite app. Ticks all the right boxes with some minor annoyances. I’m spending way too much time in it 😄
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.
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
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
Give Connect a try. Also try Liftoff. Both very good apps.
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.
You should try Lift Off for Lemmy, it’s really good.
who the fuck designed this?
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.
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
It’s a symptom of the platform altogether. It has karma, which isn’t just ‘some number’, it actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page. This is why people sell accounts.
I think Lemmy will have a much more organic feel until the major instances realize they can also manipulate posts for cash. However, I feel it will still lack a huge portion of reposts and repost bots
11 years on Reddit and I didn’t know karma helped get to frontpage faster. I had 660k comment karma…
okay, that i didn’t know. i have come across subreddits with karma requirements and i’m also aware of the logarithmic relation between upvotes and post age (basically for every X amount of time you need 10x the upvotes to stay at the same relevance) but not that account karma actually counted for that one. it can help a lot with comment rate limits though.
By the way, it seems like the comments to that post could be also generated/copy-pasted by other bots… and another set of bots +1 that comments :0/
My 18mth deep depression exacerbated by doom-scrolling Reddit 12hrs per day may have been a fucking bot psyop to make me miserable. Lemmy has been a huge boost to my mood. Feel like I’m waking from a coma since coming here.
Wow I’m sorry. My Reddit app just stopped working and the app said “hey what about Lemmy” so now I’m here.
Me too feel way better than I did on Reddit. The comments and post don’t piss me off and I enjoy posting on here. Also nice not worrying over karma and if my post our comments are getting attention.
A weight off my shoulders.
My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.
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
Would you like some usable content with your ads?
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.
At first I thought that was someone posting on lemmy… freaked me out, and I started looking for how to ban the content. 😂😂
I had nearly the same reaction! Assumed it was Lemmy as well but on a specific app. Hopped in the comments to figure out which one to avoid, very relieved it’s one that I’m already not using.
It was the top post in my feed so I thought I had somehow opened the reddit app by accident even though I’ve uninstalled it.
now what if someone hacked the official reddit app to work on lemmy
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
Kinda already exists. It’s called watch
Every tech company currently is moving towards being a shitty Douyin/TikTok clone. How innovative.
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.
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.
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.
My god, I now realize that when I was on reddit it was just super depressing posts about horrible events, on lemmy its actually ppl having fun
/r/all was unusable without Apollo letting me filter out 90% of the subs that show up there, all ragebait and reposts.
If you didn’t log into the apps, official or third party, r/All was absolutely depressing. Apollo at least gave me the ability to filter r/All when I did check it.
Sometimes I get a glimpse of what experiencing the Internet without an ad blocker looks like today and it kinda blows me away.
Plug in your phone!
Okay 15% is not the worst it could be at lol
Yeah, it could be at 14%! D:
Btw the optimal charging percentage is 30-90
Nah he’s on Android, he still has half a day left.
What are you smoking, and can I have some?
Some androids can actually do that. I have a phone with a 28 hour battery life on a full charge. That’s not what it says on the box, that’s me measuring it with real-world usage. For me, 15% means “get me a charger in a couple hours or so, and we’re good”.
So many phones these days have terribly small batteries for what is basically a computer in your pocket. With android I have a choice at least, so I chose an absolute unit of a device with a 13,200mAh battery that lasts an entire week before I plug it in.
The reddit app is garbage compared to other offerings. Too bad they fucked the whole API thing for the 3rd party apps
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.
Cool. I didn’t know this! At least some good news for now. I’m digging the Lemmy. It’s pretty easy
But did you get your cash price?
Good god, that content is so awful. Sports, shootings, parenting. So glad we have Lemmy. It feels more like the old internet where it’s mostly tech nerd focused.
We don’t go to Ravenholm
I was so confused for a few seconds, thought there were ads in my Lemmy app…
