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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247

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

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[–] wutamisposedtodo@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Seriously, why the fuck has advertising become so incredibly insidious and pervasive in recent years? I can't go anywhere on the internet and not see ads or a warning to turn off my ad blocker or message telling me to subscribe to view the content. Worse, I can't even be out in public in the city without having another fucking ad shoved in my face. I was recently walking downtown at 1 am or so waiting on an uber and really enjoying the cool night air, not on my phone or anything, just enjoying the moment, and I saw an insanely bright billboard advertising something.

I feel like ads are just starting to really wear on me. I'm sick of consuming and being told to consume and being manipulated in the death throes of capitalism.

Edit:spelling

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once you get used to an ad-free Reddit experience, it's truly jarring how many ads the official Reddit app has. Same with Youtube. I have Adblock for Youtube on my computer and when I use the Youtube app on my TV I'm astounded by the number of ads being greedily shoved down my face.

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[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

It's worse then you think. That "popular" screen is what's popular to all of Reddit determined by their algorithm, not what's popular in the subreddits you have subscribed to. There's no way to avoid the firehose of whatever they want to feed you, you can only go to a specific subreddit in the app instead.

It's basically unusable for me in this state.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] Tom2day@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have half a brain yet did download the app to see how shitty it really is. Rip RIF.

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[–] agoramachina@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never used the app, never plan to, but I can't even handle the main site now. Have (diagnosed) PTSD due to religious trauma, and those fucking unblockable "He Gets Us" ads are intolerable.

[–] pupperino@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can’t think of a worse place to advertise religious ideology than reddit.

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[–] ceeg@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people don't have time to fritter on new tech, alt clients, etc. Honestly they're not stupid and I resent the implication--Reddit's just predatory. If we want an alternative to flourish, we gotta stop treating it like its a "smart people club" and being elitist about it

[–] JasonDJ@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People go with the default “name brand” unless they have reason to think otherwise.

You search “Reddit” on the App Store, naturally most people are going to pick “Reddit” by “Reddit”. Not Apollo, or boost, or BaconReader, or RIF, or any other (absolutely amazing) third party app, unless they have some reason to think that it’s better than the official app. Which they don’t, unless someone told them otherwise, because they are conditioned to the cluttered ad-ridden garbage interface of new Reddit, and most people don’t need mod tools or accessibility features.

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[–] beatlepus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I did. And now I'm here :D Got my half brain back

And this is my first comment on Lemmy and I'm loving this place.

[–] AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a special place in hell for gambling ads. I'm not saying gambling should be illegal, but these ads target people who are trying to rebuild their life after getting addicted to gambling.

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[–] MadgePickles@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we stop posting Reddit's ads here please

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] MoltenBoron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out the asphalt on that hot shingle.

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy fuck, 90% of the screen is dedicated to ads

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We found that we can push ads to up to 92% of visible area before the user starts convulsing in violent seizures.

[–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

"So we decided to opt for 95%"

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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

one post. ONE SINGLE POST on the entire screen...

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[–] Riptide502@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember to leave a review and uninstall.

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[–] NicestDicerest@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I thought this was an advertisement and i tried to block you.......

[–] The_Batman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It makes you feel that something is wrong with your device.

[–] Tygr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

bots reposting bots replying to bots up voting bots

and an ad

[–] Thunder_Caulk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I thought this was rhe YouTube app at first glace. Damn, as a boost user I wasn't aware how bad it is.

[–] nicomart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It really is, just dropped reddit for this. Not about to go back to using the official app.

[–] Quickswitch79@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I tried it about 4 times, thinking I was missing something. How on earth could something so bad, possibly be popular? But I realised I'd just got used to RIF. The official app is absolutely dire.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TheMightyBlu@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

I'd legitimately never seen what the Reddit app looks like as I always used RIF but good grief it's actually somehow worse than I'd been led to believe.

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no no. No. Never used the official app, but man.. this is sad as hell. Just pulling up the screenshot made me scared my laptop was about to be bricked.

[–] loie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It literally looks like a pop-up ad straight out of 1999. If I saw this shit on a computer back then I'd be like "ope, that's a virus."

[–] Dark3stWhite@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You can use Revanced Manager to patch the officel Reddit app to remove all ads and trackers from it. Such a scummy platform

[–] Neybulot@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

Not to mention they stupidly made it so Chat auto-notifies you by default now, so if you forgot you joined any of those you'll get your phone lighting up out of nowhere like a reply all if someone says literally anything in one of those.

[–] HairyBricks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Their app is truly awful, and on mobile, they always try to shunt you off your browser and onto it.

[–] Paria_Stark@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It's quite insane how awful AskReddit is. Same uninteresting questions with flat answers.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Sex havers of Reddit, how is sex? Send bobs and vagene”- ask Reddit in a nutshell.

To be fair I was a horny teenager at one point but that’s what yahoo answers was for

[–] Falafels@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Did you ever find out how is babby formed?

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

High quality advertisers...

[–] Lummy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I haven’t been on that app for years but ouch, does it look bad

[–] Kosta554@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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