That's why no one with half a brain downloads the official Reddit app.
That's why no one with half a brain downloads the official Reddit app.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.
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Most people don't have time to fritter on new tech, alt clients, etc. Honestly they're not stupid and I resent the implication--Reddit's just predatory. If we want an alternative to flourish, we gotta stop treating it like its a "smart people club" and being elitist about it
People go with the default “name brand” unless they have reason to think otherwise.
You search “Reddit” on the App Store, naturally most people are going to pick “Reddit” by “Reddit”. Not Apollo, or boost, or BaconReader, or RIF, or any other (absolutely amazing) third party app, unless they have some reason to think that it’s better than the official app. Which they don’t, unless someone told them otherwise, because they are conditioned to the cluttered ad-ridden garbage interface of new Reddit, and most people don’t need mod tools or accessibility features.
I've reclaimed many a PC for folks like you described. So clogged with bloatware, trackers, adware, etc., that the machines could hardly run. Just excruciatingly slow experiences for their owners. Most folks don't know anything about machines or software. Microsoft's dominance illustrates the point.
Folks go ignorantly (no offense) where they're told. They just don't know better and get prayed upon as a result.
Every one of them knows things I don't. It's just that computers are a black box to them.