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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] 1 points 2 years ago

I’m not an Apollo user but still quit reddit because of the disgusting handling not only of third party app but also of the mods and users. Reddit isn’t deserving any of my time anymore. So far I’m enjoying lemmy and hope it stays free of corporate greed!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I do not understand how there is no mention of the fediverse.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yup, that's me. I'm still a little surprised at how easy (thanks Spez) it actually was for being such a heavy consumer of Reddit. Doing Christian wrong like that, as well as the many popular 3rd party apps and their loyal users, just didn't sit right with me. Spez chose the nuclear option, instead of actually working with and potentially helping to grow the site along with 3rd party devs, so this is the resulting fallout. He asked for it, so he got it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I’m gone, I blocked Reddit on my firewall, it’s inaccessible from my home network or any of my personal devices. I’ve also added uBlacklist to all my browsers to exclude them from search results.

As far as I’m concerned, that site no longer exists.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I’m one of those

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Memmy has been giving me Apollo vibes and has made the transition way easier

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Let's be realistic here, there's very little chance that a significant portion of users migrate out. It's cool. We don't have to obsess about our ex.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

https://imgur.com/a/SqpkQUO

I got a Reddit notification for this post while browsing this post. Time to turn off notifications!

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

used to use reddit sync.. deleted my reddit account now. shame, it was a really active site, but this is a good equivalent and it won't get spezzed or eloned. I can just move server if I feel like it.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Same here. But fortunately LJ is working on a Sync for Lemmy, excited for that. I use Connect for Lemmy right now which has a similar UI

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the good in between app solution while waiting for Sync :)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Why is it always Apollo? There were tons of amazing third party apps. This was just another one that seems to be iphone exclusive, which who cares about iOS anyways.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's not really about Apollo specifically. Or people refusing to use a Reddit without the Apollo app

Reddit is the site it is because of third-party assistance. The communities were all built and have been maintained for free by volunteer moderators for almost 20 years. Developers liked Reddit and contributed apps that made it useful. Reddit is fun, Automoderator, moderator toolkit, apollo, praw, etc etc. Imgur was created so that people could post images to Reddit and easily link them.

I quit reddit because of the company's two-faced approach to the people who have done the most work to make this site successful. The shitty behavior is nothing new, but I think that openly telling third-party developers and moderators to go fuck themselves was just a breaking point for a lot of people.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

There seems to be quite a fan club. I used RIF and Boost. All apps except the official were good.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Trying to make that my experience.

Declined my refund, deleted my Reddit history, now testing like 5 Lemmy clients on iOS, and I’ve only returned to the awful official app to check in on extremely niche subreddits that don’t have a community here yet.

I’ve eliminated my Reddit doomscrolling entirely which I’m happy about.

Also the Lemmy client testing is a lot of fun - it’s almost like Wild West Internet again - especially with a lot of the community just beginning to discuss moderation and administration and the emergent opinions forming. Lots of weird, cool sociology at play rn.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I haven't willingly been back since the 12th. Shithead CEOs aren't going to profit off my contributions. If everyone did the same it would evaporate overnight

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know about everyone but I am the same

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I deleted my 12 year 100k account at 11:59p Friday night. Had redact edit every old comment then delete them and closed the account. Some of my Google searches are still landing me over there. I don't even know what it would take to put me there permanently, again. I'm just hoping I can cultivate my experience here, enough, so that I won't have to find out.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I’m here too having signed up this morning. I am still hoping for a good iOS mobile experience. Either way I’m here for the long run. I’m done with Reddit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

An iOS app (Mlem) is currently under development. If you want to be an early adopter, you can test it already. I guess it will be available in the app store sooner or later.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Judging from the slowdowns and hiccups around here, yeah, I'd say that was "some". And we're not done yet either. Plenty of people in the world party on friday and saturday. Plenty of people in the US are camping or something on an extended weekend.

Everyone checks it eventually as the week rolls on though. Kinda fortunate for us, really. Spreads the influx out.

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