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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a mobile app that doesn't annihilate battery with ridiculously excessive cpu use and keepalive requests

Speaking of which, how on Earth it's such a slug these days? I pretty much quit Reddit when the protest started and moved to Lemmy. I never used any other Android app since I was reasonably happy with the official app. However, when I launched it to check how my old subs fared, I was quite surprised at how slow, laggy and bloated POS it had come.

I honestly don't remember it being this crappy just a few weeks ago.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's some combination of developer incompetence- they've basically never put out any decent running code- and intentional resource use for the ridiculous amount of tracking they run. Reddit tracks everything about your browsing habits as well as actively loads ads in the background. It's entire purpose was never for quality user experience, it was for revenue generation (which 3rd party apps get in the way of)