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I don't even think most of their ads gets interacted often. The small amount of people who are using the official reddit app probably have gotten used to it now so will just wait this blackout out.
I think more people use the official app than you might think. I initially thought everyone was in unanimous outrage, but many just donβt care. I donβt understand how some people know about ad-free third party apps and still use the official one.
I used official app only because I had no idea the other apps existed until this month, lol
Everyone I know that uses reddit doesn't use the official app
Convenience. For the average user it's just download from the play store and scroll. I agree that lot of people use the official app but they're used to the ads from other social media apps too probably.
I mean... I downloaded a third party app from the play store. Isn't that how you got yours too??
I mean yes, you can get third party apps on the Play Store (I got mine off F-Droid but that's besides the point), but for most people, if they want to install "Reddit" on their phone, they're gonna search for "Reddit," and then when the first thing that pops up is the official app, they'll install that, and never think twice about it.
Well my proposal for lemmy is to have jerboa apply a post signature. Like "posted using Jerboa"
So that people would start askin and be curious and then become aware that there are other apps to view the site
I can easily see that becoming rather tiresome. Instead, if anything were to be done, what about a custom "flair" of some kind? Maybe a little golden lemming by the "link" buttons that rest above the post?
To be honest, though, I'm not sure if it needs it. I like the idea of promoting the app, though!
I used both the official and boost. One for just scrolling on and one to read short stories on.
Because I was already using it since it first came out, and honestly the ads weren't/aren't even that big of a deal. I don't even notice them 90% of the time.
Using the official app for a given site/service is usually a good heuristic. Just not in this case, IMO.