It used to be in the top 5 - 10 until r/place ended… “Infinity” is currently entry 154 and the only Reddit client to make it into the top 200…
To dampen the mood: no Lemmy client makes the top 200 either since Sync lost its hype…
Source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/SOCIAL
Edit: Sry for the low image quality, I rescaled my screenshot to get it below the 100kb media upload limit of my instance and it looked fine in the gallery. I should have outsourced my upload…
TF is BeReal? Never heard of it
It’s a relatively new social media app. Once a day you have 2 minute timer where you can take a picture. All your friends post at the same time.
The idea is that you post what you do at the moment without prepering much. You don’t post the best pics or try to pretend that lots of intresting stuff happens in your life, but what you actually do in the moment.
The problem is monetisation. You don’t use the app much longer than a minute a day and it doesn’t have any ads. So I don’t know how low they’re able to do this without shutting down
And if you don’t have any friends IRL that use it, it’s pretty boring
Sounds like an excellent idea for some top-notch data farming.
That can be said about any app.
Unprepared pictures are a treasure trove for behavioural analysis tho
That’s only true when they are truly unprepared. What actually happens is that people just take a prepared shot in the moment. You usually have a big enough time window anyway and you can submit late.
Well that sounds somewhat less bad tho, just… also less fun 😅
It’s actually more fun. You also get rewarded with two extra pictures you can take whenever you want if you post on time and get blamed when you post a late by telling everyone you were late and how much you were late.
It’s 99% people sitting in front of a computer
Or lying in bed
Welcome to 2023!
Kill your cellphone.
They could make you watch an ad to take your BeReal. They’d have to sell the one spot for a lot though. And people are already too lazy to take the pic when they’re supposed to a lot so they’d probably just lose most of their members.
You get a random notification every day to publish a photo (camera only). You can upload 3 pictures if your first one has been published (I think) 2 minutes after you received the notification to upload. Else you can only publish one photo per day.
I guess the idea is to show your friends what you are currently doing without giving you time to prepare yourself / your environment…
So in other words it’s a single notification a day I’ll not notice before the window long expired. Hrm.
Then you can just post a late. You just get blamed for being late and don’t get any extra photos you can take whenever you want to before the next day
Oh I think I’ve heard of it but wtf how is it popular?
Maybe because the concept is antithetical to stuff like Instagram, which makes it fun and refreshing - you know seeing “real” stuff and not highly filtered and planned stuff all the time.
People already do this with instagram for over a decade, it’s called finstagram. You create an account under a fake name, and only add intimate friends, set it to private. At which point you post pictures of you taking a shit, being ugly or doing anything you’re too ashamed to put on your actual instagram. Ironically the fake instagram (“finstagram”) is more real than your actual insta.
Think semi-famous hot people. Actual insta: curated photoshopped pictures. Finsta: picture of what they look like 1st thing in the morning with no make up, or of them doing drugs.
Different guy but I share in his confusion. I guess I don’t understand why people like Instagram either. For me it got old almost immediately and the ads on the Instagram app were worse than anything else I’ve ever used to this day. I just don’t see the appeal and much less so for a knock-off.
Because many gen-z people are pushing back on the relationship us millennials have with social media, and find the attitude that Instagram encourages (curating and showing the best version of your life) unhealthy and anxiety-inducing. So this is an Instagram with no FOMO.
I don’t use BeReal and barely use Instagram but I totally see the point. Instagram is quite unhealthy.
I got talked into using it for a little while, and it’s actually nice. You get a little snippet of your friends’ lives, which can be nice especially when you’re scattered around in different places. But there’s none of the bullshit reality of Instagram - 90% of the posts is just random shit like doing the dishes, working, or not getting out of bed even though it’s past noon.
Sometimes posts make for actual conversation starters, other times you’ll get a bunch of people responding with a heart eye emoji to your picture of a laptop and a cup of coffee. It’s just refreshingly dumb. And there’s no algorithms.
So it’s basically 2005-2010 Facebook?
Kind of! Except that nothing you post will be public the day after and it’s generally only seen by your friends anyway, making it less embarrassing in retrospect. But the sense of awkward intimacy is actually somewhat comparable to Facebook back when people had no idea how to use it.
Being real is having no social media and meeting people in real life or by calling them.
It’s all so attention seeking, all of this. It’s like these people need to be seen by someone all the time to feel happy.
Fuck you Reddit and Steve Huffman…good riddance.
I don’t understand why they don’t just improve their app. Half the outrage wouldn’t have happened if they’d just improved the app before doing the api thing, like adding accessibility functions. Even if they’d kept the ad issues, they still would have experienced way less backlash, and it’s not like they don’t have the resources.
They don’t want to improve it. The app did exactly what Reddit wants…to service its users with the most amount of ads possible. Third party apps don’t do that, which is why they wanted them killed off.
⚠️Time to BeReal.⚠️
Sir
So many BeReals I got were just friends sitting on the toilet and I don’t want to know what they’re doing there all day long
Flushing. They should try it sometime.
Flushing is long over for this toilet
that last contributor, tho, brave or desperate?
We all know him:
Ok, I guess some people really are full of shit…
It’s the shit demon from Dogma!
That’s a weird way to put it. In Canada, the category is called “top free”.
Maybe it’s to clarify that you still pay for those apps, but not with money.
And even with the apps, you’re still able to pay for premium versions, like Reddit Premium for instance Could be that despite the app costing 0 euros up front, it can’t be labelled truly free because micro-transactions exist
So ads and data collection are illegal in Canada?
Maybe my comment wasn’t clear, I meant the 0€ version. As in, those apps cost 0 money but aren’t “free”. Just an attempt to be snarky.
But it doesn’t say “Top for 0€” in Canada, it says “Top free”
Exactly. EU famously has much stronger consumer protection laws
Thanks, that’s the answer I wanted
In my country we call it “maximum data surrender”.
I just checked the playstore from the US. Same thing, not on the top 200 at all. Relay for Reddit is at 141. Fucking Truth Social is at 16. Reddit is still an editors choice app though.
Editor might wanna try another career field
Ah, Truth Social isn’t really a thing outside the US afaik. Wikipedia says you need an US-American or British phone number to register (not that I wanted to do anyways)
Lovoo still exists?! Isn’t their CEO in prison due to them creating fake accounts of women in order to squeeze money out of naive men?
I’ve never heard of it before
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Probably to express that a social media app that is largely unheard of managed to make it onto Austrian top 200 list when Reddit, a far more popular platform, could not.
Probably to underscore it is not widely known - same as one might say something like that in an actual conversation even if not asked “do you know X” before.
I guess it depends on where you come from. I used this app ~15 years ago when I was in my teens. 😅
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Fedilab is #1 in the “Top Paid” category! (US)
Fedilab is an open source client for Mastodon and some other fediverse protocols (no Lemmy yet). The Google Play paid version is a way to support the developers.
Same here in Austria. Infinity+ is second place (Does the paid version still work?)
Who’d have thought that arbitrary despotism had consequences?
Apparently not this guy:
Funny, since my Infinity still works somehow. No clue why, but maybe that’s why it’s on the list.
Yup, the API is still free if you don’t use it commercially if I’m informed correctly (commercially includes app subscriptions, ads and asking for donations)
Try visiting an NSFW sub tho
sadly Twitter is still there… :/
Imo one of the reasons why the protest on Reddit has worked so well in comparison to X is because of the way content is presented. Whilst X didn’t really care about people leaving/protesting, Reddit was extremely affected by the blackout (even if Huff played it down) because the content that was left was trash and people were forced to move or boycott it at least)… There’s just no comparable force to the subreddits on X that could affect everyone’s timeline so much that they would be forced to stay off it.
That being said, there are lots of more reasons for why X hasn’t died (yet)
Why hasn’t X died yet though?
I wish it had :')
“removed by moderator for violating Reddit’s content policy” I’ve been using Reddit for years, but recently it’s kinda annoying…
I haven’t been on there since the first blackout
Basiert
Es ist nicht viel, aber es ist ehrliche Arbeit
I dont see it in top free/top free grossing/top free social east coast US.
Only in top grossing social.
Meanwhile in France
What’s Plato?
“Group games and chats” it says (my french is bad) but I’ve never heard of it. Is it french only?
Edit: at least I think “Chats” means chats and not cats xD
I don’t know what Plato is either.
Your translation is correct btw although I’d translate it as “games and group chats” but it can mean both. And indeed “Chats” can mean cats but doesn’t here
Such a shame: I would have enjoyed group cats…
I’ve been searching the Play Store and it does exist in my country as well
Yeah, your translation actually got me the idea of translating it “Games and Chats as a group”… The official name for my country is “Plato - Games & Group Chats”… Anyways :')
“Chats” can mean cats but doesn’t here
That is the most stereotypical language thing I have ever seen
