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Official Reddit app now doesn't even make it into the Austrian "Top 200 for 0€ Social" Google Play Store category anymore... (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by zyratoxx@lemm.ee to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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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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[-] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

TF is BeReal? Never heard of it

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 81 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] Sheltac@lemmy.ml 65 points 11 months ago

Sounds like an excellent idea for some top-notch data farming.

[-] fluke@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

That can be said about any app.

[-] Sheltac@lemmy.ml 30 points 11 months ago

Unprepared pictures are a treasure trove for behavioural analysis tho

[-] Anamana@feddit.de 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It’s 99% people sitting in front of a computer

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[-] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 4 points 11 months ago

Welcome to 2023!

Kill your cellphone.

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[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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...

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

So in other words it's a single notification a day I'll not notice before the window long expired. Hrm.

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Oh I think I've heard of it but wtf how is it popular?

[-] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 20 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] sab@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

So it's basically 2005-2010 Facebook?

[-] sab@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] MrPloppy@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

Fuck you Reddit and Steve Huffman....good riddance.

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 30 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] reev@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago

⚠️Time to BeReal.⚠️

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[-] Hupf@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

Flushing. They should try it sometime.

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Flushing is long over for this toilet

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[-] Polar@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago

That's a weird way to put it. In Canada, the category is called "top free".

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 32 points 11 months ago

Maybe it's to clarify that you still pay for those apps, but not with money.

[-] xyzinferno@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] demlet@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

In my country we call it "maximum data surrender".

[-] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] baked_tea@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Editor might wanna try another career field

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[-] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.de 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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?

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

I've never heard of it before

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[-] donio@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Who'd have thought that arbitrary despotism had consequences?

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Apparently not this guy:

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Funny, since my Infinity still works somehow. No clue why, but maybe that's why it's on the list.

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] Prof_Eibe@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago

sadly Twitter is still there.. :/

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

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)

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[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Basiert

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Es ist nicht viel, aber es ist ehrliche Arbeit

[-] s1vgm@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

"removed by moderator for violating Reddit's content policy" I've been using Reddit for years, but recently it's kinda annoying...

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I haven't been on there since the first blackout

[-] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 4 points 11 months ago

I dont see it in top free/top free grossing/top free social east coast US.

Only in top grossing social.

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