I’m desktop-only user and never had any experience with Reddit/Lemmy apps, and the sentiment towards them confuzes me.
I can imagine that the third-party apps for Reddit were better (?not bugged?) than the official one. But what made you to love them? Was the experience even better than desktop use?
Feel free to write about both Reddit and Lemmy apps in your responses.
It’s more about the principal to me. Reddit was set apart from other social media because they allowed you to customise the experience so much. They weren’t forcing you towards a “for you page” or “suggested content”, there are no “stories” or “shorts”. My reddit app has looked the same since 2011 and worked the same since. Reddit slowly stopped introducing new features to the api which sucked but it still worked. Killing off 3rd party apps is, for me, the begging of reddit becoming just another social media site that frustrates me.