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

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[-] justdoit@lemmy.world 226 points 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.ee 94 points 1 year ago

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

[-] justdoit@lemmy.world 29 points 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!

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!

[-] spez_@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] wetnoodle 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Derproid@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Even he knows reddit is a sinking ship.

[-] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 6 points 1 year ago

I ended up just setting up my own instance. Wefwef is speedy since I'm not hosting other users or any communities. I tried the native iOS apps but prefer wefwef.

[-] Derproid@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'll probably end up doing this eventually, just hope there's a way to migrate my account when I do.

[-] Derproid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'll probably end up doing this eventually, just hope there's a way to migrate my account when I do.

[-] 98codes@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

That’s how I wound up on lemm.ee—US hosted, not the biggest one, with admins that seem to give a damn was good enough for me.

[-] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I lucked into lemm.ee and it's been great. I decided to kick a few dollars in a month because hey why not? Highly recommend.

[-] ThatSandwichGuy@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Aussie.zone for me.

[-] Koen967@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Same. Started on lemmy.world which was great and all, but switched to feddit.nl since it's closest to me, smaller and works faster for me. There are a lot of servers out there so we can spread the workload.

[-] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

lemm.ee is really good, fast, mature instance with good admin. Not ad, unfortunately 😁

[-] ChamrsDeluxe@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Try Liftoff it's what I've been using and it's wonderful. Elegant in its simplicity.

[-] justdoit@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Regardless, I really don’t care much about the glitches or slowdown if it means I don’t have to see a full screen “He Gets Us” ad every two goddamn seconds.

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I gotta ask, why did you never look at third-party options if you found it so miserable?

[-] justdoit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I’m a strong creature of habit :/

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. Glad you got out!

[-] toototabon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

On Liftoff it's needed to be logged in on every instance (it handles multiple accounts), so I don't find it convenient even though I admire how polished the interface is.

[-] transmatrix@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Looks like this is Android only. Us iOS users stuck using wefwef.

[-] Traegs@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Memmy or mlem on iOS. Try those.

[-] michaelfone@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

The Memmy TestFlight is full at the moment, but should be on the App Store soon. I highly recommend it.

Mlem and wefwef started good, but imo, they’re not there yet. They both look good, but are still missing a lot of my preferred functionality. Development also seems slow compared to Memmy too, but Memmy’s dev is also a machine pumping out updates every day.

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Give Connect a try. Also try Liftoff. Both very good apps.

[-] ThatSandwichGuy@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Connect is working well for me atm.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The regular Lemmy web UI is pretty decent IMO

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 13 points 1 year ago

this. the corpos have pushed us to apps so much that many of us forgot that web browsers are very much an option.

lemmy has been the only thing that made me open the regular firefox in a long time. for the most part, i use firefox focus, because everything you wanna stay logged into makes you use an app. no exaggeration there. but lemmy's web ui actually works because it's been made by people who just want you to be able to use it, not people who want you to sell you on an app instead that can track you way better than your browser would ever allow.

[-] astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's got some odd jumps sometimes when upvoting or expanding images but otherwise it works pretty good

[-] jobutupaki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I tried out different apps because of the autoloading of new posts that happens on the site. I think that might have been fixed in the update, but now I'm having issues logging into lemmy.world on the site, because if the update. I keep reminding myself it's early days and things will get smoother soon.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The admin has been dealing with memory leak from what I read earlier

[-] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As someone that only used the official app on iOS, I have to disagree. For me every 9 or 10 posts in the feed there was a "promoted" post. Using the compact view they aren't huge ads like OPs one here, just like any other text post but they say "promoted" so you know it's an ad. Also never had this "entire feed becomes ads" either.

[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Given how buggy it is, it's entirely possible. Also, ad targeting exists. He could be a member of specific demographics (age, income, location) being targeted by a lot of ads, thus he ended up seeing a lot of ads.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I was using Jerboa but just started using wefwef a couple days ago. I really like the look and feel, plus sorting Top by 1/6/12 hours is dope, since I tend to see a lot of new stuff when I was just doing Top by day.

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