2y ago

Official Reddit app now doesn't even make it into the Austrian "Top 200 for 0€ Social" Google Play Store category anymore...

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...

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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.
  
  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.
  
  Oh I think I've heard of it but wtf how is it popular?
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
  
  Flushing. They should try it sometime.
  
  It's the shit demon from Dogma!
  
  that last contributor, tho, brave or desperate?
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?
- 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
  
  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
- Reddit has been banning accounts who are using the API exploit, just fyi
  Edit: source: https://www.reddit.com/r/APIcalypse/comments/15q5k0v/reddit_is_reportedly_suspending_users_for_using/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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?
Basiert
- Es ist nicht viel, aber es ist ehrliche Arbeit
"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
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

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