This app.
This app.
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
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That’s not wefwef—that’s on lemmy.world; it’s not keeping up.
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Ah, good point- I was mostly being hyperbolic to illustrate just how shitty the Reddit app was.
I think all the previous redditors did the same thing I did when signing up. Lemmy.world sounds the most general, so that’s the instance I used. I’ll give a smaller/more local one a try and see if that improves the performance!
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Legit thought Lemmy was serving me an advert for a moment there...!
But yeah, the official R*ddit app is Garbo, they even bought Alien Blue years ago and have just failed to keep pace with Apollo, RIF or BaconReader. This API move is just a monopolisation of their content stream, hugely anti-competition.
Even if they sorted out their app, rolled back API to free, I'd never go back. Fuck Spez.
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While spez is indeed a truly horrible piece of work, we should also keep in mind that he wouldn't be doing this without having some serious backing from shareholders. CEOs are the public figure presented to us for the 2 minutes' hate but let's not forget that these decisions are taken in huge boardrooms. So maybe we should say 'fuck spez et al' instead of just 'fuck spez'.
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Don't post that junk on here! ;)
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I remember, I was on holiday 4 or 5 years ago. I was sitting at the bar having my morning coffee and browsing reddit and I was getting annoyed that if I went to get a drink from the bar when I came back and turned the screen back on it would reset my position in the comments.
So, I asked around and was recommended RIF. Not only did it keep comment position, but it was just all round in every single way better.
No, I couldn't go back to the official app.
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Man I hate the official reddit app so much. Random ads look like real posts.
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It's simple, really.
- if you have Reddit app installed, uninstall it first
- download revanced manager and install the apk. https://revanced.app/
- find Reddit app's apk in apkmirror.com and download it
- open revanced manager and select Patcher -> "select an application" -> storage and select the downloaded Reddit apk.
- make sure "disable ads" is in the list of selected patches
- run the patcher, wait until it completed
- don't install the resulting apk right away yet. Instead, open the "..." menu on the top right of the screen and backup the patched apk
- close the revanced manager app and open your file manager. Locate the patched apk you just backed up in the download folder, then install it.
Note that I haven't actually tested this with actual Reddit app.
Edit: oops, replied to a wrong thread
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That fixes the ads but still the official reddit app is a huge backstep from the now cutoff apps that made browsing reddit a pleasure. It's just a rippoff off all the terible algorihtm based Facebook, Twitter and Instagram apps that constantly show me posts that i've neither subscribed to nor I am interested to see. It's a shame.
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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.
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🤢🤮
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The only thing I miss about the official app is seeing those ads promoting Christianity and promptly reporting them as hate speech.
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That doesnt do anything anyway. You alwere kinda wasting your own time.
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I dunno, if it feels cathartic then maybe it was worth it to them.
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Oh wow I've not seen the official app in years. That's insane, who on earth is happy using this!?
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Sadly, there's a shit ton of people who don't know any better and will stick with reddit as it slowly dies
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haha "reddit bad", he did the funny!
Look, I also dislike reddit, but lemmy should really grow out of being a reddit complaining site and become independent on it's own.
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It is already independent, people just do the stuff they used to do on reddit (eg: complaining about reddit)
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UPDATE: Apparently Infinity still works across-the-board.
F-Droid keeps nagging me to update Infinity (which I refuse to do). Currently my Galaxy A32 5G is running v5.4.2 and it's still showing up-to-date content every time I refresh. I know from a security standpoint this is a bad idea, but until we come up with a better solution, F-Droid still has it.
ml.docilealligator.infinityforredit
SHA256
0e788e7fd58ef583b32613c61efbba5898ded0ac2aaf7c4919a3b67e61182588 base.apkBoth the APK I download directly from F-Droid and the one I pulled from my phone via ADB share this SHA256SUM hash.
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Babe charge your phone you're making me nervous
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Like less than 10% of the screen is covered in content, lmao
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Less than - if you look OP isn't subscribed to AskReddit, so it's 0% content they actually have subscribed to.
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who the fuck designed this?
Also the "actual fucking content" is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.
yeah, was gonna say that's a user issue but it's in the biggest scabreddit so that's kind of on the admins too