Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
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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
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!
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.
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.
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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.
Looks like this is Android only. Us iOS users stuck using wefwef.
Memmy or mlem on iOS. Try those.
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
Give Connect a try. Also try Liftoff. Both very good apps.
The regular Lemmy web UI is pretty decent IMO
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
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.
As someone that only used the official app on iOS, I have to disagree. For me every 9 or 10 posts in the feed there was a “promoted” post. Using the compact view they aren’t huge ads like OPs one here, just like any other text post but they say “promoted” so you know it’s an ad. Also never had this “entire feed becomes ads” either.
Imagine signing up to Reddit to discuss your gambling problems and then on the first sign on you get hit with this 💀💀
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
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.
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.
Sometimes I get a glimpse of what experiencing the Internet without an ad blocker looks like today and it kinda blows me away.
It’s baffling how most people just rawdogs the internet like that and are absolutely fine with it
The only thing I miss about the official app is seeing those ads promoting Christianity and promptly reporting them as hate speech.
That doesnt do anything anyway. You alwere kinda wasting your own time.
I dunno, if it feels cathartic then maybe it was worth it to them.
If you really need to access Reddit, I’ve been using libreddit.nl which you can install as an app like wefwef and it’s ad-free :) but long live lemmy
😱 r/pics is a NSFW community! This instance of Libreddit is SFW-only.
hmmmm…
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
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.
Apollo for lemmy when?
if u liked RiF, Connect to Lemmy is a p good app. After messing w the settings browsing lemmy feels so much cleaner.
I’ve been having some html errors in Connect, I’m back on Jerboa for now. I like Connect’s UI a lot more though
Same here, I like Connect but I can’t load a single comment on there so for now I’m on Jerboa. TBD where I end up permanently though.
That might be fixed now, I had the same issue on Connect a short while ago, and it’s working now. I’m just waiting for Sync to come out for Lemmy.
I downloaded latest .apk on apkpure a few mins ago, not fixed. Maybe it is on playstore though, but I’m not touching that
I’m trying Thunder right now and this one is very nice as well. But I’m getting the same problems as Connect… I click on a post from my profile and it says the post doesn’t exist.
At least on Thunder, it still loads the main post and I can scroll to my comment (which is how I’m replying to you. On Connect, my comment doesn’t even show up and other comments are missing.
I really do like thunder though so far it’s #1
Was having alot of the same with Connect, then there was an update on the play store and seems soo much more stable now.
How do you hide comments on connect? I’ve just started using it.
Edit: Never mind figured it out! Just long press, and you can change it in settings if you want.
Wefwef is pretty much exactly that
Man I hate the official reddit app so much. Random ads look like real posts.
We don’t go to Ravenholm
I couldn’t even get pass the login screen since I only lurked and never made an account (despite spending over a decade browsing reddit). I remember they used to let you use the app without logging in.
