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Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down (www.businessinsider.com)
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Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

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[–] DrMario@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We'll have to see what the long-term looks like. This was never going to be an instant death for reddit, but it absolutely could be the beginning of a slow decline into irrelevance. Digg never went offline, it just became useless

[–] lastweakness@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope so, but I somehow doubt it. Reddit has so many casual users who were never even aware of the existence of third party apps and consider the protests to be "pointless".

[–] oderf110@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but those users probably never contributed much. I would argue the users who bothered to seek out a third party app were more engaged and active. So those are the people who are now leaving, which may hurt Reddit disproportionately.