Reddit on iOS has an ugly new icon – and you have to pay to change it
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Reddit recently implemented significant changes to its API, which resulted in many third-party apps giving up on the platform. And...
      • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
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        2 年前

        That’s not really how averages work, that’s the median, but I get your point. In order for that to be average there have to be scores lower.

        • Lojcs@lemm.ee
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          2 年前

          Median can also be called average. Average doesn’t strictly mean mean

    • nerdschleife@lemmy.world
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      2 年前

      Unfortunately, yes.

      When Netflix clamped down on password sharing I expected a mass exodus back to pirating and more people self hosting like I did.

      Instead they complained for 3 days and brought out their wallets.

      • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
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        2 年前

        I can somewhat understand both perspectives. Although I too sail the high seas, if you don’t have the aptitude to self host, and you only care to binge a show over the weekend, $12 (or whatever it costs now) is a somewhat justifiable expense. I mean, 1 comic book is $4-$6 on average these days. One of those might provide 15 minutes of entertainment and a month of anticipation. $12 is a good value.

        • Raltoid@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          Even if only spend a few hours a month watching, it’s still pretty cheap entertainment.

          Hell, some good beers while binging a season will literally cost more than the monthly fee.

        • El Barto@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          Everything I want to watch is readily available for streaming. Why self host unless you want to keep copies?

              • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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                2 年前

                And they’re lives will worse for it /s their primary concern is where their next dowse of clean water will come from

                • GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de
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                  2 年前

                  Yeah well the first reason they won’t find it is the drive melted away in the heat wave of 37’, got blown up in the second War of the Rhine in 39’, and since 52’ lies at the bottom of the Central European Ocean.

                  But also because I streamed instead of torrenting.

          • interesting_bat@lemmy.world
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            2 年前

            A big part of it for me was seeing streaming companies removing episodes due to “modern sensibilities”. Multiple censored IASIP episodes, removing the D&D episode of Community. I think this is going to happen more and more and I want all the content. Not just what was approved by some diversity group.

            • El Barto@lemmy.world
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              2 年前

              Agreed. I am as progressive as one can be, but there are limits.

              Just a few months I realized I haven’t seen one episode of The Office because Netflix removed it.

              Just give the option to “show/hide” them. But don’t hide them completely.

                • El Barto@lemmy.world
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                  2 年前

                  The one with the blackface joke. One of the characters - can’t remember his name right now - appeared wearing blackface just for a few seconds as part of a joke implying that blackface was, well, inappropriate.

          • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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            2 年前

            Mostly because if you set it up right it’s near entirely automated and you don’t have to worry about media availability on your subscribed service.

            Edit: also a lot of the time we (Canada) miss out on a lot of content on streaming services

            • sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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              2 年前

              I also like the wide range of sources to pull down content and have it available vs sometimes having to wrestle with a streaming site in the moment.

          • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
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            2 年前

            Well, sure… not everyone has to self host to see what they want to see either, but my reasoning remains the same. The people signing up and paying for Netflix all of a sudden likely lack the aptitude or don’t care enough. I got a sandwich yesterday that was > $12.

            • El Barto@lemmy.world
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              2 年前

              Funny on the topic of sandwiches.

              Two weeks ago I decided to make my own sandwiches and coffee, and all of a sudden I have $200 extra a month.

        • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          The strange thing, to me atleast, is that you can even just stream shows and movies on websites like bflix with subtitles for every language. I have friends and family that would pay netflix their left leg if they asked them to. And now they’re stuck with a bunch of subscriptions to multiple streaming services because everything is split between multiple platforms.

          • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
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            2 年前

            Is there any risk to streaming movies in bflix? Do you need anything special to use that site (like a VPN)? There is a little knowledge barrier to doing things like this.

            • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
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              2 年前

              Honestly not really. Torrents expose your ip directly to everyone downloading and uploading the torrent. But only the website itself sees your ip. Companies will join the torrent and add your ip to a list. Then ask your isp to send you a notice. With a website, companies cant see who is watching on a streaming website.

            • Cubes@lemm.ee
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              2 年前

              Also trying to use a site to stream media on a smart TV sucks so bad

      • kratoz29@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        My GF pays for Netflix and other than some annoying messages and text account sharing is still possible, not as cool as before though.

        Anyway, as she does not have the premium version, or whatever is called (no 4K) good quality picture films we end up watching them on Stremio lol.

        She doesn’t care, but I do.

      • WookieMunster@kbin.social
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        2 年前

        Thinking people are retarded because they don’t pirate or self-host. Most people don’t have the time, room, energy to do it, you must be a genius

        • nerdschleife@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          Bit of a leap there. I was merely saying consumers gonna consume no matter what the overlords demand in return.

          Just earlier today I had to beg my cousin to get a DOS laptop with an i3 and ssd over a windows machine with a celeron + emmc for the same price. The task of installing windows was enough to make him see these options as equal.

      • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        I kept paying for a little while, until I had ripped everything off their site I wanted to see, then I cancelled lol.

          • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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            2 年前

            Yep, I got a program that had to be subscribed to for about $30usd a year that allowed me to rip up to entire seasons of shows in 1080p at a time through a logged in account. I accumulated about 3TB of shows and movies then cancelled My subscription to both Netflix and the program I was using.

      • x1gma@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        The difference is, that Netflix (or Spotify, or whatever) does bring value on its own. I am paying money to comfortably and legally stream content, which itself is paid for and licensed by the streaming provider. From the perspective of a lazy end user, it’s worth it, because you do not need to care about downloading, finding releases, opsec and whatnot. I don’t want to protect Netflix, fuck corporations and subscription services, but password sharing was always only tolerated at most. From the same end user perspective, reddit is just an empty platform. The content is brought in free of charge by the community. And now not only they want the same community to pay, but also for an objectively worse experience? I don’t think that you can compare that.

        • Elderos@sh.itjust.works
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          2 年前

          Agree with you, but small nitpick, password sharing was encouraged at some point, at least from the PR side of the business.

          • kratoz29@lemmy.world
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            2 年前

            Yeah let’s not be like, “poor guys, they needed to get rid of password sharing”, if we start to agree that they were never encouraged that’s how people forget stuff.

        • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          Dodging lawsuits? Bruh you sound like you’re scared.

          No one is going to come after you with lawsuits because you’re pirating movies. Worst case scenario your ISP ends your service after sending you a dozen warnings over the time span of a year.

      • GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.deEnglish
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        2 年前

        I find it a tad arrogant to believe costumers can’t make rational decision that differ from those of the vocal online minority of reddit et al. Whenever a website changes its product (arguably for the worse, most of the time) said minority prophesizes the end, and calls out some kind of revolt, whereas the vast majority of users or costumers customers just makes due with the slightly worsened conditions, simply because they still see the product as worthwhile. Netflix, for all its flaws, still is a decent product for a decent price, as long as you’re into the kind of slop they produce. And there probably is a large portion of costumers customers who weren’t even affected at all by the recent changes.

      • prole@sh.itjust.works
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        2 年前

        Weirdly, I’ve been using my parents’ Netflix credentials still and haven’t been kicked off yet. They live hours away so there’s no mistake there about being in the same household.

        Hopefully I’m not tempting fate too much by talking about it on the Internet lol

        • jayandp@sh.itjust.works
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          2 年前

          A relative I share an account with got the prompt last month. I setup a VPN at my place so they could connect once a month and “check in” at home with their mobile app. After that they could disconnect and continue watching on their Roku.

        • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          Plot twist: Your parents can’t access their Netflix anymore but aren’t tech savvy enough to understand why, so they’re back at watching classic broadcast television.

          • prole@sh.itjust.works
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            2 年前

            Lol I was actually wondering something similar. That, or they haven’t said anything out of fear of sounding rude.

            I talk to them regularly though, and told my dad that I’m still logged in and watching it, so I hope he would have said something if it wasn’t working…

      • pips@lemmy.film
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        2 年前

        Well, why would they ditch for piracy? Netflix was smart about the whole thing: adding an authorized household (not user, entire household) is cheaper than creating a new subscription. The people subscribing to Netflix aren’t fundamentally opposed to paying for streaming, they were opposed to an unfair change in the business model. Netflix countered with a seemingly fair change in the business model that now eliminates the hassles that come with password sharing and could make the marginal increase in cost per household fairly small. It was overall a pretty smart business decision.

        There are many many problems with Netflix, including their growth-based business model, the lack of insight into their finances, and the way they’re slowly enshittifying the film industry. They’re a major reason for the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. However, this change wasn’t stupid and people weren’t stupid for going along with it. I don’t see how it would lead to an overall increase in piracy, that’s being driven by the many new streaming services forcing costs on consumers. But consumers won’t blame Netflix for that because, frankly, that’s not Netflix’s fault.

    • hh93@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 年前

      just look at election-results around the globe and how easily a lot of people are fooled by populists…

    • SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social
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      2 年前

      Obviously yes. Reddit could change the app icon to a swastika and hide the real icon behind a $50 paywall and people would still use the app because of convenience.

  • Emu@lemmy.ml
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    2 年前

    Oh I love that every lemmy post is about reddit it’s so new and cool to be part of this (NOT)

  • schmensch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 年前

    While we all hate reddit, them changing the app icon to make a reference to what used to be a fun event shouldn’t be our main point.

    • chickadee@lemmy.one
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      2 年前

      Sort of, you can use the Shortcuts app to make a custom launcher and use any icon you want. It’s not very intuitive for the average user.

    • Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz
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      2 年前

      I found an article from 2020 that said it wasn’t possible to use custom icons on an iPhone. Idk if that’s changed, since I don’t have an iPhone. I know customization is not something they are known for.

      • gkeep@kbin.social
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        2 年前

        It’s more of a workaround: you need to make a shortcut (which you can set a custom icon to) to launch the app of your choice. This is still possible.

    • TwinTurbo@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 年前

      You can’t change icons from the system/launcher settings. Individual apps can offer icon options, but they are internal to the app.

        • kratoz29@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          To each their own, I moved from iOS to Android in 2020 and first days I started experimenting with different icon packs, but not all are perfect or of my taste, nowadays I only use the monet icons feature for Pixel Launcher, but if it wasn’t for that I’d just use stock icons lol.

          • Lars34@lemmy.world
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            2 年前

            There are plenty of apps that allow you to change the app icon for free. This is entirely on Reddit.

          • zebs@lemmy.world
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            2 年前

            It’s the same on the Reddit Android app too (although the icon option in the app looks ok, the icon in the launcher is pixelated)

          • Sjoerd1993@lemmy.world
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            2 年前

            Have become? If anything, iOS have historically been getting more customizable over time not less.

            And I don’t think it’s really accurate to compare iOS with MacOSX and earlier, entirely different systems with different use cases and form factors. I’d recon if Apple released a phone in 2002 it’s be just as locked down.

            Not trying to defend this by the way, just surprised by the usage of the word “become” here as if it used to be different for iPhones.

  • Rexios@lemm.ee
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    2 年前

    This title is exceedingly misleading. This icon is not “ugly” and is an obvious marketing stunt to bring awareness to the return of r/place. Wether or not you think r/place should come back is irrelevant to this discussion. Reddit didn’t “make the icon ugly” so people would pay to fix it.

    • countsickness@kbin.social
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      2 年前

      Two things can be true at the same time.
      The fact that there really is an icon named “Original” that is locked away does not help. The old icon simple isn’t there at the moment as far as I could see.
      So even if they changed the icon for /r/places the fact that you won’t even see the old icon in the selection and that it’s nowhere mentioned that that is the reason for the (temporary) change will properly lead enough just buy premium. Hopefully users that forget to cancel once the normal icon is back.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      2 年前

      What’s crazy is that there are hundreds of 5 star reviews for it on the Play store. People have no standards and obviously don’t understand that you can pick a number of stars in-between 1 and 5.

  • couragethebravedog@lemmy.ml
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    2 年前

    I would probably pay tbh. I hate my home screen looking bad. I’m on Android and use custom icons, but if I had no other options I’d pay for it.

  • Gyella@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    Reddit can go fuck themselves. I’ve been gone since Apollo stopped working. Have never & will never go back.

    • bumblebrainbee@lemmy.ml
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      2 年前

      Sometimes I’ll check Joey. Once, it actually worked for like 2 seconds then I refreshed the page by accident and it was down again. I did this like 3 days ago? Otherwise I’m here.