Reddit is buyng 5 star reviews.

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.

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!

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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