Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.

    • AllegedCoyote@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • b3nsn0w@pricefield.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

    • RealNooshie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.

  • Bazzatron@reddthat.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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’.

  • justdoit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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

    • 98codes@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s not wefwef—that’s on lemmy.world; it’s not keeping up.

      • justdoit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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!

        • Mystical_Toe_Cheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I ran into the same issue with Lemmy.World. Tried switching to Beehaw.org first (before I learned that they had defederated from some of the bigger instances) and had my “application” rejected. Appears I didn’t provide good enough reasons for why I wanted to join their particular instance. To me, it just shouldn’t be that serious. Tried sh.it just.works and well, it works!

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

    • chri_ho@feddit.deEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        There is an option in revanced manager to patch reddit sync to use your own oauth client id. I just tried it out and the patched reddit sync just crashed when it start loading the frontpage. oh well.

        • PownyRyda@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Works perfectly fine for me. Did you use the right APK that’s linked in the Google Docs with the instructions?

          • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            I actually tried with latest version of Sync Dev already installed in my phone. What version are you using? Also, which google docs? I only follow the instruction in revanced manager that said to put the client id string in /data/storage/emulated/0/reddit_client_id_revanced.txt

  • walderan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • _tinker_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    The only thing I miss about the official app is seeing those ads promoting Christianity and promptly reporting them as hate speech.

    • bi_tux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      06·
      1 year ago

      It is already independent, people just do the stuff they used to do on reddit (eg: complaining about reddit)

  • ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social
    01·
    1 year ago

    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.apk

    Both the APK I download directly from F-Droid and the one I pulled from my phone via ADB share this SHA256SUM hash.