cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/883364
Despite site-stopping protests by mods and users, Reddit leadership chose to brute force its way through any reasonable way of continuing third-party app support. Instead, the company hopes its luxury-priced API will be its secret shortcut to an overvalued IPO. As a result, Reddit’s official iOS app is being torpedo’d in the App Store.
The final days of Apollo may be upon us, but the ramifications of Reddit’s disdain for its users are here to stay. Look no further than App Store reviews to see the results. As TechCrunch reports, data from Sensor Tower shows how Reddit is sealing its fate as a 1-star reviewed app.
The data shared with TechCrunch shows that nearly 91% of Reddit’s U.S. iOS reviews carried a 1-star rating during the initial phase of the protest between June 12–14, compared to about 53% in the previous two months until May.
There has been some ratings improvement lately as the 1-star reviews of the Reddit U.S. iOS app dropped to about 86% between June 15–26, Sensor Tower’s data shows.
That’s presumably because the App Store doesn’t offer 0-star ratings. It’s also telling that Reddit leadership thought nuking third-party apps made sense when its own app saw more than half of its reviews rank it as low as possible.
Reddit app reviews in the App Store have also become a place for users to voice their frustration with the self-sabotaging company.
The data shared by Sensor Tower also indicates the top three most mentioned terms in all of the Reddit U.S. iOS reviews included keywords “apollo”, “third party” and “3rd party,” suggesting users were bombing review ratings in light of the new API move.
Either users are pissed or they’re hosting a lot of birthday parties for the god of truth.
At any rate, there’s been virtually no good news on the Reddit front since the awesome Apollo client was forced to announce its end date. The best Reddit app is closing up shop on June 30 to avoid owing tens of millions of dollars to Reddit before ever seeing its own revenue.
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Even before the protest, just over half of reviews were 1 star? Jesus.
Makes you wonder if Wall St pays attention to anything outside of its hallowed halls?
They don’t. The only thing that matters is squeezing more money out of the plebs
And ofc apple is using their platform to remove and suppress low ratings. Its so dam suspicious that the app has essentially only 5 star ratings now. 4.8 out of 5.
This is an actual case where 1 star reviews are completely valid.
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There are tons of new 5 star reviews that are obvious bots on there. Really interesting read.
different story for android
Look at that rating distribution lol
Doesn’t seem to affect the average rating that much
one star review for the reddit app are being edited to 5 starts
It seems like it. I see a lot of reviews that are like “app is garbage. hate it. 5 stars.”
Also sort only positive comments by “Most recent” and you will see only some bot responses, while Critical are much more in depth.
…some of those bot reviews are… choice, lol.
Wow. Is Reddit responsible for the 5 star bots? Desperate, desperate.
Judge by yourself, but looks like bots to me.
Someone had to make these bots.
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“I did my part!”
Lemmy seems like it’s picking up steam as a worthy adversary to Reddit. We just have to convince more people to use it.
Downloaded the app, rated 1⭐, then disabled it.
I just downloaded the Android app, gave it a one star review with a few sentences of why, then uninstalled. Sad but there the way it goes
Remember to go in and mark one star reviews as helpful!
I cannot review the app on Play Store for some reason…
Yeah I had that problem too which pissed me off. I was able to review it from the web version of the play store. I did install it first, but not sure if that was required.
Didn’t need it installed to leave a review from web, thanks!