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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.
On another note: hi, I just came here today after RIF stopped working 👋
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.
It’s pretty common for competitors to buy your name in search term sales.
The famous example been Pizza Hut buying ads on searches for Domino’s
It’s 6th for me when I search lemmy. Visible at the bottom of the list before starting to scroll. Definitely a regular listing as far as I can tell.
Welcome!
I’m here full time too since I got connect.
One bot’s review is referring to Reddit as Tripomate. Lol oh reddit…
Lol that’s hilarious!
Lol thats gold.
After seeing this, I thought I’d go over to the Play Store to leave a 1 star review. Then discovered I had already left a 1 star review (complaining about their shitty interface) a few months ago, which I’d totally forgotten about ;-)
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.
I never managed to get it to load anything on my 380mbps internet connection. Every 3rd party app (and the website) loaded fine.
I have about a similar level of loading inconsistency between these new Lemmy apps, and the one Reddit app made by the actual company. And the Lemmy browsing experience is already way better.
That was exactly what I did too
“Oh…I already gave it 1 star…good”
Past-self high-five.
(my first lemmy comment let’s gooo)
I feel like I must be crazy but these reviews do not read like 5 star reviews. Seems super suspect.
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?
That honestly sounds to be the likely scenario. If someone saw the review they might shrug it off as an error or mistake.
We should report them as fake. Not sure how many reports it takes to get someone to look at it but it might be worth a shot.
Imagine if Reddit, after cutting off so many 3rd party apps got their own app banned. Even if only temporarily.
Delicious
I wouldn’t be surprised, the reddit “leadership” has shown it’s either their way or the highway even if their way leads to a cliff.
I just came to that
Delicious
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?
Pushing awards and micro transactions for Snoos and not making a functional app with sleek and in line advertising placement
I reported some of the ones I saw on the App Store but I doubt it will do much good.
I’ve been reporting the ones I see on the Apple App Store
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Reddit is completely astroturfed now. Nothing but bots and humans that act like bots.
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.
They’re not even public yet lmao. And reddit got started by using bots to post content from RSS feeds to make it look busier than it was.
I hear that instances can disable downvoting in Lemmy’s configuration. Maybe this is some solution to this issue.
but it’s also about upvotes. /r/worldnews and many large and default sub is infamously crawling with upvote bots and they drown out everything unwanted and most people only read the “hot” section.
on the desktop lemmy ui there is an option to hide scores
it doesn’t completely solve the vote issue since most people don’t use it ( I assume), but I find my experience more enjoyable when I don’t know what scores a post or comment has
I hear that instances can disable downvoting in Lemmy’s configuration. Maybe this is some solution to this issue.
The main reason sites have upvote/downvote features is to create confrontation and conflict. They want us yelling at each other and insulting each other because that engages more people and makes them more money.
Social media companies are the scum of the fucking earth. Tech needs to be much more heavily regulated than it is. It’s long past time to put these intentionally destructive fatcat sociopaths in their place.
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I hear that instances can disable downvoting in Lemmy’s configuration. Maybe this is some solution to this issue.
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.
I expect it from reddit, Twitter and Facebook. This is a competitive service, and it’s not backed by a rich person that can swing money around to discover their behavior and sue them. They’ll likely be doing some shady stuff to make sure this either doesn’t work, or is under their control.
it’s not even about suing - i was reading the instance owners post about the version upgrade and it struck me that’s truly just down to random volunteers to work out tech issues. debugging malicious actions of a bigger team is just unfair.
Even if they do that, I’m still not returning to reddit.
basically 😂
This is the future of corporate internet.
From what I’ve seen is all the shitty people remained on Reddit
Lmao I saw a 5 star review that said the official app was “better than any 3rd party app”, that it had “non-intrusive ads”, and asking for an ads toggle for premium users to be able to support reddit. I can’t even tell if it’s some sort of elaborate sarcasm. Wild.
Currently 2.4/5.0 on the Play Store. Wasn’t that long ago when it was around 4.0. Their rating has taken a beating over the last few weeks.
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.
I for sure helped with the beating.
Wow, they’re really spezzing it up!
This reminds to give reddit 1 star on Playstore.
Me too.
Same here
That’s how you know that they know that the vocal minority might become a vocal majority.
Just leave my first 1 star to reddit app
I’m going to leave my own review now too
just left a 1 star review, because it honestly deserves it
They just continue to validate my decision to walk away
Right?
Just left a 1 star review and reported a bunch of their obviously fake 5 star reviews
