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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After BaconReader shut down, my reddit usage plummeted to near 0. Only used it the last few days to Google interview questions from my desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I am one of them, except I walked away weeks ago after the lies etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Including me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dumb question. I've been off reddit and here for about a month. Today 7-2 I opened my boost app and infinity app and noticed new posts. I thought all the api apps were shutting down 6-30?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Infinity's dev said the app would still be usable for sometimes until a new update pass it into a subscription plan.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Done with Reddit. Lemmy is the way

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not long made the switch and so far I'm liking it. Subscribing to remote communities is more complicated than I think it needs to be but, meh, you only do it once. Fingers crossed it keeps growing, Reddit was fun for a good while but it's been heading downhill fast recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit? Now here's a blast from the past! Is that thing still around? I've not been there since Sync died.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I couldn’t get use to Narwal and the official app wasn’t it. The ads weren’t as bad as the subreddits it kept recommending. It was too cluttered. Also I wasn’t aware how many things were Apollo only. Gif scrubbing seems like such a common sense thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have, for now at least. Reddit is a hard habbit to break, and maybe lemmy is just feeding that same habbit but it's an interesting time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In a way, I feel more free now - had an 11 year old reddit account and used Alien blue, then Apollo. I got so stagnant in consuming media that I ended up not contributing since everything I would’ve said had already been posted. But seeing the smaller growing communities across Lemmy makes me excited to actually contribute

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s what I dig. Deleted my reddit account and now am either on here onSquabbles. Fuck reddit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been on reddit for nearly 8 years (baconreader only), tragic really but it's been pushed into a direction I don't want to be involved with. Did the same with Facebook and haven't been back.

It'll go the same way other platforms have done before. Acting like they are irreplaceable when they are anything but.

Looking forward to being here and contributing to a growing community, get a good felling about here!

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