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[–] 203 points 3 years ago (8 children)

I just realized I'm taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It's refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn't slam you with advertising.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Uh oh! You’ve reached your daily limit of free Lemmy™ posts. Please tap here to spend 45 Lembux™ and refresh your post allowance.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn't mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.

    The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn't a bad thing.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    The start of ads seems to always lead to a path of enshitification. One of the reasons I really like jellyfin is because they realized this and intentionally disabled recurrent donations. They saw what it does to Plex and saw the eventually the leadership's will try to sell out and sell the company or IPO.

    Jellyfin saw the way every service seemed to go once the revenue picked up and decided they want to prevent that.

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    [–] 172 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    There's a bit of app in your ads.

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    [–] 57 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    It is too crazy for a company as big as Reddit to make a pretty good app that will make you not want to install 3rd party ones? well, seems like it is...

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  • [–] 77 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    the hilarious part is the entire Reddit app is built on top of Alien Blue, which used to be the de-facto best Reddit app ever. They bought the entire app out way back in 2014 and built the current slow, buggy, security-hole-infested clusterfuck right over the top of what used to be a good app. During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback. Nothing has ever been truely fixed.

    They could have done literally nothing but put a tiny bit more advertising in to Alien Blue and made every other 3rd party app basically become irrelevant. But no. They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.

    Fuck Reddit. Fuck Reddit.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback.

    Ah, the Activision Blizzard playbook.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Well, kind of. They were already working on the official app. Buying AlienBlue was simply a way to force a migration. AlienBlue actually had very little impact on the official app’s functionality, because they weren’t interested in AlienBlue’s code at all; The buyout was for the user base, not the app itself.

    This most recent API change is simply the next step in the process. They realized they couldn’t buy out every single third party app, so they just cut off access instead.

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    [+] 36 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Reddit's newest users use it like Tiktok, thus pushing short videos to the front page all the time. It will become a Tiktok clone within the next six months. Mark my words.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    IMO this already happened. I've been seeing too many short videos content on reddit lately. That's why I've been slowly abandoning reddit. Eventually API changes made me switch to lemmy which is turning out fine right now.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can't leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they've restored against my will.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago

    What a garbage C-team Reddit has, such a shame

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wait, I can redeem cash prizes?!?

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Seriously thought for a second there when scrolling that lemmy had added ads

    It was a horrible feeling man

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    I'm sorry bro cause I gotta hide this cause it's so bad but I appreciate the glimpse into what that place looks like

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Kinda reminds me of this scene in Ready Player One https://youtu.be/KpPE85Jogjw

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    obligatory "charge yo damn phone."

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Hold on. CASH PRIZES? why wasn’t I told!

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    That's worse than last time I used it, which is when they were still giving free awards to use but you had to use their app to get them.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    i miss sync for reddit, I don't miss reddit

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    The hottest of garbage

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Guys, its my turn to post this tomorrow!

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    I'm not installing that crap and therefor I'm not browsing Reddit from my phone.

    I'm also not browsing reddit from my desktop as I spend most of my time online on the Fediverse now. Lemmy and Mastodon are great!

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The newest update for Jerboa cleaned it up so nicely and fixed all the little issues I'd been having with it over the past month. So happy to have made the switch when I did. It feels so much more complete now!

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    what a piece of shit. meanwhile apps like Memmy and wefwef are miles ahead with a clean interface in just such a short amount of time.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Ads should be illegal TBH.

    Who needs that in their life? If your product can't stand on its own merit and you need to bathe swaths of the general public with nonsense to sell anything then maybe your product deserves to fail?

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Their podcast ads are the worst. "Why take care of everyday things when you can pretend to gamble!?!"

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    [+] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Ah yes, another day not getting spammed with ads and tracking software, lovely.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Don't post ads on lemmy! Giving them free exposure!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    All of the people still using Reddit who called protesters whiners and power hungry mods are going to realize what we were protesting soon enough. Dumbshits. Enjoy the show, it’s gonna keep getting worse.

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