Depressing news - pun intended. How’s it doing in yours?
I just joined from reddit cause i used Apollo, kept hearing about lemmy but i tried it before and it looked confusing cause I’m pretty stupid when it comes to tech, i saw wefewef.app while browsing on safari and pressed it to find something of an app that looked like Apollo which is fkn terrific, the login process was kinda hard cause i kept making the account in a different place and tried to login to a different place, but once i figured it out everything is starting to feel familiar, long story short if people wanting to migrate find the new one daunting/confusing they would stick with the familiar and easy, wefwef.app is a game changer
It’s sitting at 2.8 here in Canada!
Just google using some good old bias selection to boost app ratings. Their ratings are about as reliable as Amazon’s.
Ugh, makes me ashamed of my countrymen…
With a 4.7 rating? Really, you guys? What’s going on there?
Have you considered that maybe it’s not that bad? In the last month, I have tried to find out what it is that people hate about it so strongly. But all they say is immature things like “it’s cancer”, “it’s literally cancer”, “it’s shit”.
It might not have the features that people who joined reddit in 2017 care about, but most people dgaf.
I tried it for a long time and it’s just clunky, advertisements are hidden everywhere between the posts and in the comments section, the general overview is cluttered and illogic, and it stutters while scrolling.
Dang. I forgot about the stutters. It felt… Bloated somehow? Idk how to describe it. Joey, on the other hand, felt pretty “light” to me. Easier to navigate and you can personlize it, too.
I used the Reddit official app and it wasn’t that bad for me. The problem is when the CEO doesn’t respect the community. Reddit is great because of the community. But recently, CEO is trying to go for business first, making many community feel largely ignored. I saw it as long as long as the business get in the community way, there wouldn’t be that many engagement and good experience. I joined Lemmy because I was hoping they are kind to the community. It is my opinion and many others would have different view, this is my perspective and reason to join Lemmy. Reddit app is not bad but the community is not doing well.
Look, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with liking an app that many others don’t. But it is a bit naïve to think you’re not going to get a lot of people disliking your comment, also because of the way you phrased it. Many of us used third-party apps, and we’re not used to being bombarded with ads, we knew exactly which subs we liked and didn’t and really don’t appreciate getting five suggestions every day for some random subreddit, claiming we would love it. Then there is the use of personal data and the weird decisions with taking away chat histories and awards that people. I guess if most of us really liked the Reddit app, we wouldn’t be spending so much time here. At least for me, leaving reddit was not a decision I took on a whim, and I think many other lemmings will agree.
TLDR: the Reddit app really does suck. Glad to be here.
It is that bad.
It’s cluttered with ads, stutters, lags, is buggy, etc.
It’s a mediocre user interface centered around showing ads to the user, with some content in between to justify it.
Lmao
You must be living under a rock
Do you have anything concrete to say, or are you just trying to shame me for not being on your tantrum bandwagon?
The fact that you write, I’ve been trying to figure out why people dislike the platform, kind of says it all. If you’re not aware of what has happened lately and why people are hating Reddit for what it has become even after doing your ‘‘research’’ then… yes you must living under a rock.
I am very well aware of what has been happening lately. However, a lot of the arguments by reddit mods and regular users uses “the official app is literally cancer” as an axiom, rather than something that might be worth discussing. This is what I am questioning, not that reddit management has (yet again) proven themselves to be absolute pieces of shit.
Not exactly what your original statement suggests…
But it’s not exactly difficult to find out why people are disliking the app itself either.
Oh, it absolutely is that bad. I gave it a generous chance, I started using it since I signed up on Reddit and kept using it for a few months.
The sheer amount of inserted unwanted content, including but not limited to ads, and the fact that at the time I was using it, it lagged massively on phones that were not bleeding edge new, did it for me. I eventually switched to Sync and then Boost and it was a huge qol improvement.
Btw, this comment kinda feels like it’s from a bot. I’m not accusing you of being a bot, but the “No one can tell why the app is so bad” part is sus, it was repeated by a lot of bots on Reddit, and it’s certainly pretty easy to find people elaborating on the exact, specific details on why the official app sucks so hard.
I tried it less than an hour ago (apologies to my fellow countrymen for adding another download to the statistic!) because they wouldn’t let me open a video in my browser.
It was every bit as awful as people are saying. Just a mess of ads and unwanted functionality with desirable functionality missing or hard to find. Uninstalled and gave it 1 star.
I used it back a while ago. For me it was alright, except I couldn’t filter out keywords and phrases and subreddits. That was unacceptable.
I went looking for an app that would let me do that. Suddenly no more rage bait. I never looked back after Apollo. I wonder if the app has that basic function yet. I have no intention of finding out.
I saw how ad ridden it is. I could do a few ads but from what I’ve seen there are just too too many.
Have you considered that maybe it’s not that bad?
It is, but I really don’t care to convince you.
but most people dgaf.
Most people are also dumb as fuck though.
Check the data permissions
How is their rating this high? Even before the API-BS their rating on the german playstore was somewhere around 3.6, now its at 2.8 lmao
Paid or bot accounts is my guess. Just the typical buffoonery they’ve shown in the past.
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i think that’s just paid reviews
