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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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[–] AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’ve always preferred mobile sites to apps. Not sure why. Maybe I just like to use Safari to manage all that I’m checking out.

But I stand with developers. Even Balmer knew developers are a major key to success. I’m not interested in using a site with such hostile ownership.

Fuck spez.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To me, Apollo WAS Reddit. Period. When Apollo shut down, Reddit shut down.

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[–] activator90@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Looks like I'm from the minority of people who browsed Reddit on Firefox Android. Although I lost nothing, I like the smaller cohesive community feeling of Lemmy

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[–] carpenterdan@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Yupp. I jumped ship at approx 2 pm on Friday. Was a sad sad moment when Apollo stopped working :(

[–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I’ll still have a look every now and then on the pc with RES. But 95% of my Reddit time was on Apollo. Inreallly enjoyed alien blue before that, so it’s a mystery how they managed to fuckup that once they bought it

I miss r/Cricket with the massive community of Indian Redditors, they are so funny and quick witted, so it was a quiet one this week in the small Cricket sub (or whatever you call it). But glad to get the ball rolling with Lemmy.

[–] alouderback@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I’m one of them! Loving wefwef so far

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mod for a medium-sized city subreddit, here. I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to be able to keep modding for it, now that apps like Apollo and RIF are dead. It is functionally impossible to mod effectively with the official app (let alone the mobile site).

I'm not quite ready to just abandon the city community I spent so much time assisting - I mean, they're my friends and neighbors, not just my subreddit subscribers. But if they move to Lenny en masse, I'll join them, and say goodbye to Reddit permanently.

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

Why not get ahead of the curve and start moderating/start a community here already?

The positivity and enthusiasm on lemmy is so refreshing and each community is growing quickly. It’s like the days of Reddit when it was young.

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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m a part of that group. I see 24 people wish I’d kick rocks haha, I get it.

Look, I’m sure most of the refugees agree with me. If we don’t fit in we’ll leave.

So far I’m digging Lemmy. I wish it was more active, but if it’s gonna grow it will.

It broke my heart to leave Reddit after 15-16 years, but it’s not that same place any more any way.

So, hello fellow Apollo refugees.

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[–] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I just stopped going to reddit. The only way O used reddit was apollo. I put lemmy icon on the aplllo place cos I kept unconsciously clicking it even though I knew it wont work.

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[–] tiagofal@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apollo refugee here. Can confirm.

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[–] impulse@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean let's be real: Anyone with a fraction of self-respect would walk away from this dumpster fire after being repeatedly called noise by the idiots running the website.

But on the other hand I have to admit that Spez was completely right. This did blow over rather nicely for Reddit, since any publicity is good publicity and it seems like most of it is business as usual minus actually good apps.

[–] DrMario@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 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

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[–] wildcelt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Agree. The more I play around and get comfortable with Lemmy the more I realize I don’t need to “grieve” the loss of Reddit

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’m a part of that group. I see 24 people wish I’d kick rocks haha, I get it.

Look, I’m sure most of the refugees agree with me. If we don’t fit in we’ll leave.

So far I’m digging Lemmy. I wish it was more active, but if it’s gonna grow it will.

It broke my heart to leave Reddit after 15-16 years, but it’s not that same place any more any way.

So, hello fellow Apollo refugees.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm still reading /r/boxoffice (on desktop using old.reddit) so that I can follow the Summer of Flops, but that's about it. If a community exists and is reasonably active on both Reddit and Lemmy/kbin, I won't touch the Reddit version.

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[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, i walked away once my BaconReader stopped working. I wasnt going to use the Reddit app, or even get into the habit because it isn't that good.

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[–] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

Now we wait for them to kill old.reddit and Reddit will finally be the low-energy TikTok clone Spez wants it to be.

[–] sennish@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I was on Sync for Reddit on andrioid. Today I officially deleted my reddit account. The reason given "u/spez"...

[–] schistocerca@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another former Redditor that walked away as soon as Apollo stopped working. I will never look back!

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[–] Myro@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Indeed a very strange feeling. I only opened it to confirm Sync really is no longer working. Will keep my account for now (nostalgia?) but have not been browsing reddit since roughly a week. Feels good. But I'm sure official numbers are going to say "Engagement higher than ever at reddit".

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