Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,

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    3 months ago

    I thought reddit killed third party apps? Or are you paying the $10,000,000 per month or whatever it is?

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    The Reddit populace is pretty leftie. Except for the occasional brave soul commenting here and there, you have to search out certain subreddits to hear conservative views.

    Not that your app has anything to do with that, of course.

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      I’d say it is (was? It’s been ~a year and a half since I used it consistently but I’m guessing it hasn’t changed too much since then) moderately left by US standards but definitely not progressive left - you don’t have to go very far to find thinly-veiled sexism/racism/homophobia, though that might just be because a large portion of the people there are terminally online in a bad way. That being said, there are definitely also communities ranging from conservative to hardcore conservative as well but I actively tried to avoid those so I didn’t really see them in my feeds. The same is true with progressive communities but they tended to drift away from being actually progressive once they got to a certain size.

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      3 months ago

      To a “conservative” reality itself must seem extremely left-wing. It’s just their warped perspective.

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    3 months ago

    Your first error was to create a reddit app.
    Your second error was to not create or contribute to a Lemmy app instead.

    Hope that helped. :)

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        3 months ago

        And this is actually the issue. As a developer I want to build and app based on what interests me. Then I want to write a post about it.

        The comments:

        • person 1: Why would you waste your time building an app for that platform, you should build an app for this platform that way less people use”
        • person 2: “nah that’s a waste of time you should build an app for this even more niche platform with even less users”
        • person 3: “you should just use RSS feeds and anything else is a waste of time”

        Me as a developer “thanks guys I just wanted to build an app for a platform I’m passionate about”

        Wrote this comment on my own lemmy client, because I like using about lemmy :)

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    Ahh they stepped out of their echochamber because the app shows r/all if youre not subscribed to any subreddit. Also, sometimes im forced to use reddit, love your app.

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    You’re responding to a Steve sock puppet account. It might not be him on the other end, likely it isn’t, but it’s his. He wants all the money and doesn’t like to share because he’s a greedy little pigboy.

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      Or recipe reviews.

      “I didn’t have flour, so I substituted lard. I also didn’t have sugar, so I substituted salted cod. Worst cake ever. 1 star.”

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      I read somewhere that the best places to eat are Yelp 2 star places where the reviewer whines about service. It suggests the reviewer wanted to give a 1 star review because they were mad but had to concede that the food was good, hence 2 stars.

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        And then they take 2h to get your food, you find the waiter’s entire ponytail in it, and you’re yelled at if you don’t tip 50%? Idk man, some restaurants get bad reviews for service because they have bad service. And having bad service detracts from the experience of going out to eat.

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      on the French Amazon I once bought Argan oil and one of the 1 star reviews was “very disappointed, smells and feels like oil”.

      I kid you not.

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        This item funtioned exactly as intended but didnt do what i wanted it to do.
        One star.

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          After selling on eBay I once got the feedback that the buyer was deeply disappointed because what he had received was exactly what had been listed and shown in the photo, but nothing else, which somehow he had hoped for.

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    Just challenge the review because it’s not about the app? If you can’t do that, then just let it go.

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        Are you allowed to respond honestly?

        If you made a response like:

        "Dear reviewer,

        When I wrote the code for this app, which displays content from reddit that I have no control over, I never envisioned some fuckwit moron would be so stupid that he or she would get mad at the App for just displaying what’s on reddit.

        In the future, I’ll add a disclaimer that goes “Are you some anti-DEI piece of shit who thinks everything is Woke? Press the large red button icon below to only see the “based” subreddit.” I hope this will help you understand how to use this App, you fucking idiot.

        Sincerely, Developer"

        would that get your kicked off the store?

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    "This oven is horrible! 0 stars! Everything my wife makes on it or in it tastes terrible, "

    Sorry, yo. Ya can’t fix stupid.