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Apollo for Reddit is shutting down (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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whelp, there it is

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FYI, a lemmy iOS app, Mlem, is in active development, and we hope to be at 1.0 by July 1. It's heavily inspired by Apollo, but, obviously, with changes for lemmy.

Stay tuned and subscribe to c/mlemapp for updates!

Edit: I want to note that, since one of the biggest sticking points with 3rd-party apps has been both accessibility for the blind and deaf and mod tools, they're both on our minds as we design the interface. Getting both right will, of course, take time, but we want everyone to know that we fully intend to make our app usable for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sad news. I use Boost which I love. But won't be using Reddit anymore once 3rd party apps are cut off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same. There was a post on the boost subreddit indicating this place, so I expect there will be an influx (eg, me).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And now I’m here after 17 years on Reddit. 🤷‍♂️

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

15 for me. No ragrats.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome and enjoy your stay!

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

I am exited about this new community & the potentials that can be created. Let's conceptualize, design & built the server & application side - organically as our needs evolve over time. !

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You and me both.... I have seen that place through its ups and downs. From the narwhal bacon's at midnight to Jolly Rancher, Zoop and the swamps of drogba.

I finally left my account a few days ago and haven't been back since. The place is a shell of what it used to be and it's been really very refreshing have a scout about somewhere else.

Fuck greed..... It eventually ruins everything!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the swamps of drogba

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ha ha..... Nice ! Image didn't load without a click, it was risky but a lot better than what I braved myself for :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're here and you have the technical skills, please consider running your own instance. Beehaw and lemmy.ml are getting slammed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there docs or docker containers out there already for this? Anyone with an unraid server could be offloaded to their own instances if it gets published in their community apps store (it just needs a config file to make it work on there IIRC).

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

There's actually an Ansible playbook for it, that will deploy Docker containers. It's pretty easy. Edit some configs, run the playbook and boom!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

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

God, I feel so bad for Christian. What a slap in the face….

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

The initial breaking of this story is what drove me to explore some Reddit alternatives, but this is worse than I realized. It's a bummer to see the enshittification principle on full display.

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

Here from the dev himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/?sort=confidence

Shows already that the blackout protest will change nothing.

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

It is sad to see an amazing app become rendered useless due to some companies greed. They were not even being reasonable with pricing nor did they really give the dev time to figure out what to do.

I really hope that everyone leaves reddit and comes to the fediverse. Mastodon had a huge boost and it completely replaced twitter for me. I am sure Lemmy can do the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm hoping Christian ports Apollo to Lemmy. I'm not sure what the feasibility of doing so is but I'd actually pay a monthly subscription for the ability to continue using it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think he wants the apps to die with its legacy. Maybe he would make another app that does it. I hope he does and I would pay a modest subscription for it.

I hope that on June 30th, when it shuts down, the app doesn't just give an error message but instead displays some kind of farewell message.

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

Yeah a farewell would be good. In my dream scenario, he would open source it and the community could port it. That might be unlikely though

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

Going to miss using Apollo. Great design and Christian built it with the user experience first.

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

How do you get to the point where you're accusing Christian of blackmailing you in this situation? You're the 500lb gorilla who's driving all these app developers out of business. Even if you really feel like these app developers have been free riding on your largesse, how do you have so little perspective to be this petty and spiteful?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Signed up to Lemmy today, but held off to see if the Reddit situation was going to get any better. Seems like it won't, so one big hearty fuck you to them.
I'll try and contribute as much as I can to this community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yup. After reading about Apollo going the way of the dino I took a quick glance over the Boost for Reddit subreddit, and while it doesn't look like they've announced their shutdown it's realistically gonna happen unless Reddit backs out last second.

I saw a thread there where someone recommended Lemmy so here I am. Gotta say so far it feels just like Reddit did, in a good way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if they back out. Screw them

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

That's about where I am. Spez making up a blackmail/extortion accusation against the Apollo dev is just so completely damning. I have no faith left in anything the Reddit admins say at this point, and it's hard to imagine what they can do to change that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do people keep mentioning apollo? It sucks. There are actually good 3rd party reddit apps

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not my favorite but I can see the passion of the dev in my app. It's not fair to discount the whole thing because you think it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The changes of the api affects every 3rd party reddit app. Apollo is one of the least good ones. Focusing on the bad app is shitting on everyone who puts all of their passion into the good apps

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious as to why you think Christian doesn't put passion into Apollo?

What things about Apollo don't you like?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Making foss is driven by passion. Making proprietary software is driven by passion for making money. One of these passions are not driven by greed. Guess which one. Also, guess which kind of software I prefer. I will never understand itoddlers

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

So if it’s rude when others call you names, how would you categorize what you just did?