I just realized I’m taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It’s refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn’t slam you with advertising.
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My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.
On several sites that counter climbs like crazy. I’m watching a YouTube video right now that’s only 12 minutes long. The uBlock counter just hit 60.
Then you wonder why those sites are so slow sometimes…
I have a youtube tab open, it’s currently at 498 blocks. After writing that, 503.
I haven’t had this page up very long today, but apparently YouTube is on an advertising roll at the moment.
Added bonus: I’m one of the three people in the world who pays for YouTube premium… so the quantity of ads should be much lower.
Oh hey, I’m one of the other two, lol. I think they probably lose money on us at this point, with the amount of ads they serve.
Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn’t mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.
The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn’t a bad thing.
The start of ads seems to always lead to a path of enshitification. One of the reasons I really like jellyfin is because they realized this and intentionally disabled recurrent donations. They saw what it does to Plex and saw the eventually the leadership’s will try to sell out and sell the company or IPO.
Jellyfin saw the way every service seemed to go once the revenue picked up and decided they want to prevent that.
plenty of instances including mine and some massive ones like lemmy.world are fully funded by donations.There’s absolutely no need for ads
Using lemmy is well worth the $5 per month I give them.
There’s a bit of app in your ads.
Wow, I didn’t even notice that.
Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can’t leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they’ve restored against my will.
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Reddit’s newest users use it like Tiktok, thus pushing short videos to the front page all the time. It will become a Tiktok clone within the next six months. Mark my words.
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The fantastic consequences of images in comments.
Yeah I try to not think about how it’s now normal to see ads everywhere. What kind of normal is that… It’s sick.
OP has a view setting that magnifies ads. In my view setting (as close to third party apps as it gets), the ads take up much less space and there is no trending section. OP is choosing a bad layout to exaggerate their point.
Curious since I never used the official app but are these things opt in or opt out?
Yeah cool. Good way to caught your attention. Make ads bigger.
And make the app buggy so it mistake your scrolling with click
It is too crazy for a company as big as Reddit to make a pretty good app that will make you not want to install 3rd party ones? well, seems like it is…
the hilarious part is the entire Reddit app is built on top of Alien Blue, which used to be the de-facto best Reddit app ever. They bought the entire app out way back in 2014 and built the current slow, buggy, security-hole-infested clusterfuck right over the top of what used to be a good app. During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback. Nothing has ever been truely fixed.
They could have done literally nothing but put a tiny bit more advertising in to Alien Blue and made every other 3rd party app basically become irrelevant. But no. They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Fuck Reddit. Fuck Reddit.
They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Recent comments from the CEO confirm it. Bloodless money-grubbing techbro shitbag.
i think it might equally show how challenging it is to design an app that provides the user with an optimal experience.
You’re giving Reddit way too much credit. It’s not that challenging for something as simple as a forum app. The real “challenge” is the very, very large difference between what’s optimal for users, who want content; and what’s optimal for the company, who wants all your data and ad clicks and couldn’t give the tiniest rat’s ass about what the users want.
The official app is built on top of Alien Blue, which used to be considered the ideal user experience. They could have done nothing but OS support updates and it would still be perfectly fine. The entire current unusable clusterfuck is COMPLETELY INTENTIONAL FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.
There’s more than just that to it.
I recently downloaded it so I can save some um research content for later research (I’d been off Reddit for maybe two weeks at this point, I wasn’t going to hurt my pride if I saw the app for myself). When I refreshed the front page of my research throwaway, all the posts were hidden and replaced with new ones. Refresh again, those are gone too, replaced by three or four stragglers. Final refresh and there’s nothing on the front page. They’re practically begging me to go to their algorithm page (popular?). It looks like an A/B test they’re doing, and it looked like others were annoyed at this from the feedback I saw on the official mobile app sub. It was an A/B test with no toggle or anything.
Normally, in an app made to give the user a good experience, this should be a feature you turn on and off. I remember a ton of people swearing by some kind of post hiding system, so, sure, this is definitely a plus for some people. But I’ve refreshed my Reddit home page for over a decade now. Don’t make it misbehave all of a sudden.
Their app, with all its bloat, can have some nice features. For example, during my research session, I was swiping through an album. When it was finished, it swiped into the next post. At first I didn’t like that, but a few posts later, I liked it, I got the hang of it. Decent navigation feature, fine. This isn’t so bad.
I tap into another part of the app a different sub I think, and now the only direction I can scroll is downwards, and instead of showing me the next (image) post, it shows me some random popular vertical video from a different subreddit. Literally just TikTok navigation for Reddit. Which again, would be completely fine, if it was a button I could tap to enter this mode, but not just haphazardly switching between different navigation UXes so that the app can quantify which one makes me see more ads. Fucks sake.
I didn’t even want to download their app, and the one time I find a new feature that I don’t hate, it gets turned off within the same session to serve me a feature I specifically don’t want. I don’t think vertical video is the death of the human experience, but it sure as hell isn’t for me, and it sure as hell is the last thing I want out of a site like Reddit.
These A/B tests infuriate me. I open Instagram every once in a blue moon, and I absolutely despise scrolling down my feed and seeing the same information displayed ten different ways in less than a minute. On one post, the likes counter is bold, on another, it has profile photos, on another, it’s an accented color… like that’s worse than just picking the worst option in my opinion.
But that’s the thing. No first party app will ever be designed to have a good UX first and foremost. That’s secondary. What’s important is their meaningless metrics that make the site worse, so they can charge more for ads (even if they make the site worse for paying users…). I understand that they’re trying to appeal to new people over on Reddit, I genuinely believe there’s nothing wrong with that. But if I stumbled upon it now for the first time, I’d think it was hot unusable garbage, and I would not have guessed this is site would have been my literal front page of the internet™ for over 11 years in another life. Probably would just assume it was a porn site with a weird news aggregator attached.
Dear lord. Random UX changes are among my least favorite things. I have issues with focus/concentration and eyestrain, and I would genuinely rather have a crappy but consistent UX than random changes.
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Right there next to ya, if anything I spend a bit more time on Lemmy, especially commenting. Feels considerably more cozy, and welcoming here then reddit has for the last few years.
Am also considerably happier, didnt realize just how much stuff on Reddit was there to try to egg you on and antagonize its users.
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Ads should be illegal TBH.
Who needs that in their life? If your product can’t stand on its own merit and you need to bathe swaths of the general public with nonsense to sell anything then maybe your product deserves to fail?
Yeah, it’s basically psychological assault, making you feel inadequate, taking up precious mental bandwidth, and feeding addictions.
What a garbage C-team Reddit has, such a shame
obligatory “charge yo damn phone.”
It was fully charged ten minutes ago, when the official Reddit app started opening.
I’m not installing that crap and therefor I’m not browsing Reddit from my phone.
I’m also not browsing reddit from my desktop as I spend most of my time online on the Fediverse now. Lemmy and Mastodon are great!
All of the people still using Reddit who called protesters whiners and power hungry mods are going to realize what we were protesting soon enough. Dumbshits. Enjoy the show, it’s gonna keep getting worse.
Hold on. CASH PRIZES? why wasn’t I told!
The newest update for Jerboa cleaned it up so nicely and fixed all the little issues I’d been having with it over the past month. So happy to have made the switch when I did. It feels so much more complete now!
Found this cute little mammal with my nick name in its name a couple years ago, now it’s an App. I’m in!
I had no idea it was even an animal! That critter looks wicked, especially those teeth
