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Agreed. Additionally, you couldn't breath a whisper about the official app without the thread turning into "you don't know what you're missing, try x,y,z app!" Which had to encourage more than a few app immigrants
At the very least, anyone who bothered investigating a 3rd party app for Reddit was probably also bothered enough to post and comment on Reddit too and potentially be a power user. That's going to be a drain on quality content at the very least.
The sole purpose for me using a 3rd party app was finding out you could block subs.
Switched to boost and purged all the right wing bullshit I could find