The fact they push the app so hard but, the app sucks so much.
You could use alternative apps right?
Currently, yes - but perhaps not for much longer with the direction they’re going (in terms of making the API pay-to-use).
It doesn’t sound like the API will be pay-to-use for individuals. Instead, it would be pay-to-use for businesses that are currently deriving business value from Reddit’s data set of comments and posts on Reddit’s dime.
I dislike the current direction Reddit is going with their focus on business, preparing for IPO, constantly making the new Reddit app and website shittier, stuffing ads in more places (luckily I don’t use the official app) and removing useful ones (compact mode, pushshift).
If Reddit API access for 3rd party applications goes away as I’ve heard might happen in June, I’m dropping Reddit pretty much completely. There was a lot I liked about Reddit but this is a deal-breaker; I’m not using their broken, buggy, ad-filled, data-sucking app.
I’m sure you’ve heard but well, it’s happening.
July 1st, I saw the Apollo App thread. I suppose following in Imgur’s footsteps, sexually explicit content seems to be going for sure. The other feature changes also seem to be specifically targeted to kill 3rd party apps. Maybe some apps can be reconfigured to allow inputting individual API keys per user, because Reddit is making the excuse that 3rd party app API keys are making too many requests (without accounting for the amount of requests per user)
Well, I guess I have a month to convince ppl on Reddit to join Lemmy.
the mobile UI is unusable. every page prompts me “do you want to view this in the browser or in the app?” (it doesn’t remember the way i’ve answered this question 100 times already). then if i want to view a thread that’s deeper than 2 replies, i have to keep clicking “load more comments”. it’s just annoying and slow, clearly by intent.
it doesn’t remember the way i’ve answered this question 100 times already
Oh, it remembers. It just doesn’t care. Or more nefariously: it wants you to do the opposite.
conversely that’s one of my favorite things about Lemmy- the UI is so clutter-free and works seamlessly on mobile. it’s a very nice change of pace
I don’t like how closed it is - closed source, single company running it, and now even the data is getting locked down so users can be ‘the product’ Reddit sells.
I hate the mobile site. They bug you so much to use their shitty app.
Its too much in English and too many people from United States.
IMO this wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so narrow-minded. Still, I regularly read things like “¿Why are you speaking Spanish/asking for Spanish products on an American website?”
I dislike how it’s run by glowies who use the platform to astroturf.
I find very frustrating in Reddit that I often find controversial posts more interesting than top posts because the more users there are in a subreddit the more memes get upvoted and everything else gets downvoted.
even if all the enshittification with ads, API access, and the app were all fixed, there’s one huge flaw with it that cannot be fixed, because it’s central to how Reddit works: karma. karma is gained when you get upvotes, and subreddit admins can gate the subreddits they administrate off to people with less karma than a certain threshold. most subreddits are gated this way. in addition, karma is displayed publicly, and people lend more weight to people with more karma than people with less. because of those two design choices, there’s very little in-depth and niche discussion on Reddit. everyone’s pandering to the lowest common denominator for internet points. i’d laugh, but as i mentioned before, you have to have internet points if you want to participate in certain communities
You describe the situation in the biggest subreddits. In smaller niche ones it’s exactly the opposite for the same reasons.
Pervasive racism, classism, queerphobia, chuavanism etc. The constant propaganda posts where we all get together to trash a poor person, Black person, or queer person for unsanctioned behavior.
Pervasive sophistry.
The pervasive allegiance to the political spetrum and to partisanship discourses. They police themselves to keep each other in line.
The pervasive scientism and technological optimism which is only countered by doomerism and dogma.
Honestly I just can’t stand the users.
Their promotion of a transphobic and islamaphobic subreddit that is running a psychological operation with the help of a hindu-nationalist community (that is currently the backbone of the indian government).
It’s pretty addictive to just scroll through and lurk on there. It’s a perfect timewaster application.
The overwhelming deluge of “how do I [insert trivially-googleable thing here]?” in subreddits of any size.
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The probability of some billionaire buying it is not zero.
Massive censorship. You can get permabanned for just saying the wrong word. Even joking.
There are rules everywhere, you can’t just expect to be able to say whatever. What about bad faith commenters, spammers, illegal content etc.
The positive with Reddit (and Lemmy) is that most of the rules are specific to a community. If you just can’t live with the rules of one community, you can always split off and form your own. The area where is this breaks down is site-wide rules, especially when Reddit has poorly defined rules that get enforced haphazardly by “Anti-Evil Operations”.
