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

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who the fuck designed this?

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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.

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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

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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/

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

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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

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Hell the screen from Idiocracy rings a fucking bell seeing this.

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Would you like some usable content with your ads?

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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.

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

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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’.

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Just dropping in to say I noticed your 1984 reference, and appreciated it especially in the context of this particular discussion.

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Thanks!

Never thought the telescreens would be in our pockets though -_-

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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

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

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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!

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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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Dude, scrolling by this on connect and panicked that the ads were already hitting Lemmy!

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Don’t post that junk on here! ;)

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