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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1 (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet to c/technology

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[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I actually like the Reddit app (which apparently makes me the only one), but I'm not for Reddit fucking everyone over.

[–] steakfries@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] steakfries@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

yes i saw that yesterday and im really happy thats available for people who still want to be there without ads. For me though at this point im just done with reddit completely.

[–] steakfries@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] bermuda 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] pre@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

@TheButtonJustSpins It's like letting oligarchs monopolize the means of communication is a bad idea or something!? Who knew.

@Gaywallet

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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