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

    • AllegedCoyote@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      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.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    1·
    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.

  • justdoit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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

    • 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.