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  • pre@fedia.io
    40·
    2 years ago

    If 200,000 people would rather figure out how to make all their individual forum softwares work together in synchrony than put up with your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

    Dunno. I never installed it coz I never install any apps if I can help it, and I know how to use a web browser. But if a quarter of a million people would rather subject themselves to the complexities of distributed information networks and the politics of inter-instance blocking than use your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

    It’s like the kids today don’t know what a web address is with their obsession with apps. They seem to prefer to download an executable than read a text document. If even them, a million zoomer kids who are normally obsessed with apps, if even they would rather entertain the idea of a communications commons not owned and controlled by oligarchs than use your app, then maybe you should have just used yer IPO money to buy Apollo?

    Dunno. I’ve never installed either. Sounds sketchy. I distrust apps.

    @Gaywallet

        • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOP
          18·
          2 years ago

          Okay you specifically have carte blanche to ping me to tell me how awesome I am. But please try to keep it to less than maybe 30 pings a month

      • pre@fedia.io
        3·
        2 years ago

        @Gaywallet Replying in your mega-thread. KBin here is tagging you when I do that and I didn’t delete it.

        Haven’t used Lemmy much, perhaps that behaviour is different?

      • steakfries@lemmy.oneEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        I think you may actually be the only one. whoa. I’ve never downloaded it so I wouldn’t know. But doesn’t it have ads? Because I hate ads so much and would never use an app that pushed them. Fuck ads honestly, I actually put in a good amount effort to make sure I see exactly 0 minutes of ads per day.

        • reric88🧩@beehaw.orgEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, my wife uses the official app and she complains about the ads. Constantly, certain subreddit posts show up in her feed as an ad.

          I tried the official app and didn’t like it. It was too bloaty, comment chains felt annoying, navigation was annoying, lack of features was annoying.

          I initially used Reddit Is Fun, then moved to Sync for some reason. Then moved to Boost after the Sync dev went MIA last year.

          Each one of those was leagues above the official app.

          • steakfries@lemmy.oneEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Thats funny my wife had the official app for a while and deleted it when I showed her Sync, I didn’t even realize she wasn’t using Sync to browse reddit i just assumed she did and never asked. I used Sync for years and years. Alien Blue I think before that. I assumed reddits app probably looked something like they’re new browser site and I hated that thing. I only ever used old.reddit with RES. Now I’ll never go back there again if I don’t have a good reason too.

          • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            If you’re on Android and tech-handy you can remove the ads from the official app with Revanced Patcher.

        • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          I used it for a good long while but what inevitably pushed me away were the absurd loading times and the ads. Things just took forever to load. Like, multiple minutes to watch a video, even more to load a subreddit. And there were ads every 5 posts.

      • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Have you even tried the alternatives? This might just be a “not knowing any better” situation

    • b000rg@midwest.social
      12·
      2 years ago

      I paid for the Apollo app when I used iOS, and I do not regret it in the slightest, because I’ve never been paid for any of the programming I’ve ever done. In fact, it’s all been done under the auspice of a student loan that I never earned a degree from. I’m happy to see someone get paid for their programming work and the fact that a multi-billion dollar company is trying to extort these programmers disgusts me to the highest level.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
      5·
      2 years ago

      The mobile web interface sucks diarrhea geysers, so yeah, those of us who use our phones more than our, ahem, desktop terminals prefer an app that’s actually optimized for mobile.

      • pre@fedia.io
        7·
        2 years ago

        @CeruleanRuin their website says right there on the nag popup. This website is deliberately user hostile, to drive you all onto the app where you can be efficiently transported towards the rotating knives.

        I mostly just didn’t look at Reddit much to avoid the trap.

        @Gaywallet