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  • XiELEd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Lmao I saw a 5 star review that said the official app was “better than any 3rd party app”, that it had “non-intrusive ads”, and asking for an ads toggle for premium users to be able to support reddit. I can’t even tell if it’s some sort of elaborate sarcasm. Wild.

  • Paws@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Currently 2.4/5.0 on the Play Store. Wasn’t that long ago when it was around 4.0. Their rating has taken a beating over the last few weeks.

    • marsokod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Before the API pricing change, the Reddit app could be considered an internal hobby project made by a handful of employees on their spare time.

      Now that this one is mandatory, it can be rated for what it is.

  • cyd@vlemmy.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    After seeing this, I thought I’d go over to the Play Store to leave a 1 star review. Then discovered I had already left a 1 star review (complaining about their shitty interface) a few months ago, which I’d totally forgotten about ;-)

    • Urbanfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I did exactly the same.

      Went in with a “fuck spez” attitude and turns out I’d already had a fuck spez moment when I picked up sync after finding the Reddit app garbage.

      • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I never managed to get it to load anything on my 380mbps internet connection. Every 3rd party app (and the website) loaded fine.

        • SwallowsDick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I have about a similar level of loading inconsistency between these new Lemmy apps, and the one Reddit app made by the actual company. And the Lemmy browsing experience is already way better.

    • Korkki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      it’s not just that reddit turned into a huge greedy corpo-clusterfuck when they went public, it was kinda bad before that too and held bad practices. Lemmy has a lot of the same features that made reddit shit on a fundamental level.

      The up-vote downvote system itself is a both a curse and blessing. it’s sorts things decently but it encourages mediocrity and bot like behaviour in people, if one likes to put it that way. It makes discussing anything controversial and where the issue isn’t black or white, impossible. Good for cat pics and tits, but really bad for politics and the like, because everything eventually floats towards some status quo and everybody and everything else is sidelined and encouraged to shut up or go with the flow or face downvote barrage.

      Also the bots are here, not yet, but they will be. Bots are easy to make here too. If this place ever gets even decently popular this place will get astroturfed and up-vote manipulated just like reddit. it’s too easy to manipulated community opinion or shill for issues or things in site like this. Federated structure might help or make it worse.

      • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        They’re not even public yet lmao. And reddit got started by using bots to post content from RSS feeds to make it look busier than it was.

      • Pankkake@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I hear that instances can disable downvoting in Lemmy’s configuration. Maybe this is some solution to this issue.

    • lycanrising@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      what i fear is that reddit will take completely unnecessary but effective potshots at the fediverse and take down instances or fill them with bots just to punish those who made a point of leaving.

      • krackalot@vlemmy.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I expect it from reddit, Twitter and Facebook. This is a competitive service, and it’s not backed by a rich person that can swing money around to discover their behavior and sue them. They’ll likely be doing some shady stuff to make sure this either doesn’t work, or is under their control.

  • python@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    They’re also definitely doing some sort of keyword manipulation, cause the official Reddit App is fairly high in the result list when searching for Lemmy.

    On another note: hi, I just came here today after RIF stopped working 👋

  • First@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was seeing this today too! I’m reporting all those comments to the App Store, I hope it does something

    • MajorHavoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I look forward to reading turf wars between Dominos, Pizza Hut, Coca Cola and Pepsi bots, all powered by ChatGPT, arguing their bot rage across Digg, Meta, Twitter and Reddit.

      And I look forward to reading all about it through ActivityPub.