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Third party Reddit apps just got canned. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Miyagi1337@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let's do this! 🤝

Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.

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[-] Icedrous@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority but it doesn't make sense why these elitists are so upset. It was bound to happen eventually. Then they say the official Reddit app is unusable? It's functional, it probably works better than half of the third party apps do anyway.

The only thing I'm upset about is the developers lost well earned money and their time and effort to make these apps only for them to shit the bed. But let's be real: nobody's really going to quit Reddit. I joined lemmy because I wanted a new social media app and I'm going to be using it alongside Reddit. Will I use Reddit more than lemmy? No, probably not. Will I use lemmy more than Reddit? Also no, probably not that either. I'll use them side by side.

It's kind of a shame that lemmy has mods though, from what I've been reading up on it, I thought it would be better than Reddit when it comes to freedom of speech. But just because it's "federated" doesn't mean you can't say whatever you want. It just means it's not owned by anyone in particular.

[-] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I don't find the official reddit app to be usable, it's twice as slow as any 3rd party app I tried, enabling sound for a single video in the feed allows Everything you scroll past to scream at you, which is obnoxious, and it's wildly unintuitive (though this one is more of a personal preference than a problem with the app per se).

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

See I've never had any sort of issues with that across multiple android devices and one iPhone device. I've used the official reddit app over all of the third party apps (literally tried most of not all, across android and iOS) and I prefer the official app over them all.

The only issue I've had was battery optimization on my low end android but once I upgraded to an iPhone and later a new android it was fine.

[-] sergio@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it would be better than Reddit when it comes to freedom of speech

You will never find a service that lets you post anything you want unmoderated. Your point is still wrong though because all you need to do is find an instance that tolerates your speech.

[-] WomenAreSoPrettyWTF@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

what specific views are you having suppressed

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

Personal opinions, like my city's take on safe drug usage to lgbt stances that I don't agree with

[-] WomenAreSoPrettyWTF@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

you're suppressed on reddit because of your opinions about lgbt people? what kind of opinions?

[+] Icedrous@sh.itjust.works -6 points 1 year ago

I was permanently banned from Reddit for saying something about Robin Hobb's series Assassin Apprentice that it was gay and had a non-binary character, proceeding to say I'd never finish it because of that.

Or I've seen countless people get banned from Reddit saying to keep the kids out of the lgbt stuff.

I remember saying before I got banned that I didn't really agree with pride, mainly because international men's day is also in June and ever since pride was a thing, that's been glossed over. So I was upset about it and I remember I got a lot of hateful comments for even bringing it up.

[-] iokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If that was meant to exonerate you, it mostly just made you sound pretty bad. Refusing to finish one of the most remarkable fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings because you can't tolerate the existence of gay or nonbinary people isn't normal behavior. I genuinely hope that you try to work on yourself and sort out this simmering hatred instead of getting upset about humans who are different from you existing.