I came to Reddit via Alien Blue and stayed via Apollo. Now I check a few subs periodically in a browser, but my usage has drastically dropped without Apollo.
— Install AppStore++ for TrollStore: https://github.com/CokePokes/AppStorePlus-TrollStore
— Install Apollo from the App Store
— Open AppStore++, tap Apollo, tap downgrade, choose 1.15.11
— Go to your home screen and wait for the older Apollo to finish downloading
— Install this tweak: https://github.com/JeffreyCA/Apollo-ImprovedCustomApi
Open Apollo and it will prompt for your API keys — Stebe Jovs voice “Boom.”
For this crowd, you might like my (not my own, but where I joined) instance: lemmy.sdf.org
If you want NSFW to work, you need to be a mod of a subreddit. Any sub, even one you make yourself with no posts ever.
I don't know if RIF-vanced still gets any "updates" to fix these minor issues? I assume not, but never checked.
And with those "normies" came the low-effort posts that totally ignored things like stickied posts, subreddit rules, and the overall culture of the community (or site.) Take a look at /r/roms, for example. The sidebar, the top announcement sticky, the rules, and the automod on every single post says "here is where they are" and what is most of the subreddit? "How do I find game" - same thing for BuildaPC, or Tech Support, or Linux.
Then the mods have to remove the low effort posts and get called names, or they get upset that the resources they've taken time to make available to the community are ignored for the 500th time and blow up, just to get called more names or even censured by the admins.
The only way to win is to not play. And that's why I use a combination of HN and an RSS reader now.
Apps were mostly bad at showing sidebars too, they wanted to streamline the main view. They were there but I think a lot of users didn't know.
Anecdotally I seem to notice a trend on how grammatical/spelling corrections are received. If people generally accept them in good grace as a chance to improve, discussion quality can be decent. If they take it as a personal attack, or other people pile on (often with the classic "no one cares") ... well that's Reddit these days usually.