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[–] 55 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Memmy with the Apollo-inspired Sunset theme has been giving me a nice same-but-different vibe. That said, if Christian enters the Lemmy arena I’d happily support him.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Try wefwef for a full scale Apollo experience

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah wefwef is the best look-a-like experience for Lemmy. like Apollo was for Reddit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    I tried to find wefwef on appstore, no chance.

    edit: Ah, I see it's a webapp which you store "as a shortcut" to safari. pleasant to hear, but too many steps and unorthodox for some people. Not all people would love to hear that instead of going to appstore and hitting "install" they would have to do 5-6 separate steps instead they've never done (including me, and Im a software engineer:P) And before that, you have to think that "hey, how do I put this on my homescreen again?" and either you hit settings intentionally or by mistake, or somebody has to tell you. Like ... too many steps between having the app on your menu/using it everyday and "installing" it.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    I have mentioned it before and got no answer on the Apollo Reddit board

    Someone did tell me that he thinks Lemmy is too new and would like to see where it goes as a platform. That’s here-say though

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    The things is... having Christian sign on and port Apollo over would be a pretty good way to ensure Lemmy's survival.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    While I agree I think he needs time to mourn the loss of his nine year old project. Just my 2 cents

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    He needs to seriously consider his next professional move. His entire lifeline was kicked out from under him.

    Lemmy is too small for him to reasonably capitalize on. So I'm not surprised he is in a wait-and-see mode on that one.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    While lemmy may grow, I can't see a way for him to make money from it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Same way he made money from Apollo. User signups and ads. Would require a lot of growing though...

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    He said he’s not interested in building a new Apollo-like app in an interview with The Verge.

    It’s hard for me to build another thing. If it just evaporated again, it would be like a double breakup. This has been so exhausting for the last few months. The amount of work it would take to port all the API endpoints over to Lemmy or Kbin or something, that would be a gargantuan amount of work that I’m not sure I have the capacity for. Source

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don’t know how but I would totally support Apollo for Lemmy

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    For the time being, there's wefwef. But that feels like a band-aid, rather than a temporary solution. I miss Christian and his shenanigans

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I want this too. But I’m sure he is still enjoying his well deserved break. Let’s give it to him. I’m sure he’ll come up with a new project soon.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    Would have been helpful if Lemmy had been advertised very strongly from Apollo near the end to get people moving across here. Feels like a missed opportunity.

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