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Lol that's hilarious!

They're also definitely doing some sort of keyword manipulation, cause the official Reddit App is fairly high in the result list when searching for Lemmy.

In the organic results or the paid results? It's pretty common for competitors to buy your name in search term sales.

I did exactly the same.

Went in with a "fuck spez" attitude and turns out I'd already had a fuck spez moment when I picked up sync after finding the Reddit app garbage.

That was exactly what I did too

"Oh...I already gave it 1 star...good"

You’re right. One specifically mentions ‘would rate this 0 if I could’ so in lieu of that option, they selected a…5?

Have they gone through and scraped the text from a bunch of real reviews and are reposting them with 5 star ratings to make them look organic?

it's not just that reddit turned into a huge greedy corpo-clusterfuck when they went public, it was kinda bad before that too and held bad practices. Lemmy has a lot of the same features that made reddit shit on a fundamental level.

The up-vote downvote system itself is a both a curse and blessing. it's sorts things decently but it encourages mediocrity and bot like behaviour in people, if one likes to put it that way. It makes discussing anything controversial and where the issue isn't black or white, impossible. Good for cat pics and tits, but really bad for politics and the like, because everything eventually floats towards some status quo and everybody and everything else is sidelined and encouraged to shut up or go with the flow or face downvote barrage.

Also the bots are here, not yet, but they will be. Bots are easy to make here too. If this place ever gets even decently popular this place will get astroturfed and up-vote manipulated just like reddit. it's too easy to manipulated community opinion or shill for issues or things in site like this. Federated structure might help or make it worse.

what i fear is that reddit will take completely unnecessary but effective potshots at the fediverse and take down instances or fill them with bots just to punish those who made a point of leaving.

This is the future of corporate internet.

Imagine if Reddit, after cutting off so many 3rd party apps got their own app banned. Even if only temporarily.

People must be doing that, I scrolled for a bit and didn't see a single 5 star review. The best part is most reviews call out exactly the same problems as my 1 star review from 2018. Very few even seem to mention the API or 3rd party apps. What have they been doing for 5 years?

Before the API pricing change, the Reddit app could be considered an internal hobby project made by a handful of employees on their spare time.

Now that this one is mandatory, it can be rated for what it is.

Me too.

Same here

Older than that, my account is 16 years old…I came from the Digg exodus and it existed for a short while before that.

I gave it also a 1 star review with the mention "One of the apps ever. Very popular and well-known". Also doing my part o7