After the app rating was down to about 2.8 stars on Google Play Store recently, it is now at 4.1 stars. Latest ratings seem to be from September 2022 though.
Looks like they’ve deleted all the 1-star ratings that had been recently added.
How come they delete 1 star reviews for review bombing, but clearly 5 star bot reviews are fair game?
because the company benefits from those.
Anyone tried review bombing with 5 star reviews and scathing comments to see if their system kicks in to remove all fake 5 star reviews in the last x hours? Or is this a manual removal of reviews they do?
Netherlands:
It seems to me like it’s the US which is severely lacking in customer protections, allowing the Playstore to make deals with Reddit to fudge the ratings.
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2.7 in Germany
Although honestly, who cares
just checked, yupp 2.7.
2.9 in uk. Most reviews i see are negative towards the app not the service. So i think it would be wrong for google to adjust the scores.
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Peertube is quite bad. I would suggest using Newpipe until it improves, because switching over to Peertube from YouTube means you won’t find almost any content anymore.
That means people will switch back to YouTube. So using Newpipe is better I believe. Even though it would be great if everyone started uploading to peertube instead. But people who make videos on YouTube seem to be doing it for the money, so not likely they will enjoy Peertube.
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Yeah I tried it for a bit but I ended up seeing really low intelligence conspiracy videos.
I don’t mind good conspiracies like 9/11, but there are so many really shitty ones.
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Yeah exactly, same for me. But I think the easiest way to discredit all conspiracy theories is to fill the entire space with really idiotic ones.
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Yeah plotting against eachother is called “politics” in business and it’s called “strategy” in politics. :)
I’m surprised anyone would want to host something like peertube. Even picture hosting for randos can get expensive real fast.
It is very very important to log in to your local Play Store and mark all the reviews you consider helpful…
Not for me
Although it is higher than it used to be
The ratings are region-dependent, it doesn’t have a 4.1 worldwide.
2.6 even.
I see 3.0 and my 1 start review from June is still up. I see one from July 8th this year as well.
3 for me. North America.
What I find hysterical is that there seems to be more one star ratings than five stars!
3.0 is what I see. However I scrolled through hundreds of reviews sorted by “most relevant” and they were nearly all 1 star.
It’s a 2.7 for me here in Canada
Why does not a thrid party website exist where they are a bit realistic to ratings
2.7 stars for me, Germany as well, but with English UI.
