- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- RedditMigration@kbin.social
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The death of Apollo is literally why I’m starting to look at online spaces other than Reddit as my go-to
Same. Apollo = Reddit for me. Take Apollo out and I have no way to access Reddit (that I’d want to use).
Same here
I know he wants a break. But I would love to see Apollo for Lemmy
mlem is planning a stable iOS release by 6/30, and using Apollo for inspiration. You won’t need to wait long.
On the android side, jabroa is kinda clunky. Hoping some other people step up to the plate.
Jabroa isn’t fully fleshed out yet either, but it does at least have a more complete feature set at the momeent. It’s mostly usable for day to day Lemmy browsing. Mlem isn’t there yet. Sounds like the dev is making great strides, so hopefully soon.
I’m excited to see how fast both develop. The difference between Jerboa today and a couple days ago is pretty amazing. Things are moving quickly
It’s got more done in two days than “progress” on reddits trash app has made in 8 years. Imagine that.
Me too, but I think the Reddit and Lemmy APIs are sufficiently different that he would effectively have to rebuild most of the app. I have high hopes for https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem, I’m in the TestFlight, but it’s too incomplete to actually use currently. Still, I’ll miss Apollo itself far more than Reddit.
I would love to see Christian make an Apollo variant for Lemmy at this point.
The article specifically talks about that.
It’s hard for me to build another thing. If it just evaporated again, it would be like a double breakup.
Apollo for Lemmy would be awesome.
Man, really fuck Spez. Christian just seems like such a genuinely good guy, who just was trying to build something great using Apple’s tools. The way he details the huge shift of direction from early 2023 to now in regards to them having no plans to change the API smells a lot like corpo-influence sinking their teeth in Spez and forcing this change ahead of the IPO.
Hopefully we can prove that this new model works and can be sustained long-term, and Christian can be enticed to revamp Apollo for the fediverse.
u/spez is Steve Huffman (if you even genuinely believe he’s been running the account these days).
The u/spez account will likely die along with his position. Meanwhile, Steve Huffman will get a golden parachute and laugh all the way to the bank.
Do not forget his name is Steve Huffman. Also, do not forget that he used to be a mod of r/jailbait and is almost certainly a paedophile.
This is an excellent interview that lays out the situation really well, though it’s not really new information if you’ve been following the story. Sounds like Christian really would have been willing to work with them and they just threw that opportunity away at every possible point.
I’m happy to talk whenever, but I just haven’t been able to reach them.Sounds like a recurring theme based on the AMA. It’s almost as if Reddit is being disingenuous when they keep talking about how eager they are to work with 3rd-party devs.
Christian is such a class act. He doesn’t take things personal; he doesn’t get angry or play their game. He just shares his truth in a calm, objective, but confident manner. I would love for him to become more prominent outside of Reddit drama because I’m sure that anything he works on will become successful and mutually beneficial to all parties involved. If I managed a large tech organization, I’d be calling to recruit him. Certainly, other tech corporations are following this and wondering how they can get him to come work for them.
Godspeed Christian. Personally, I am very much looking forward to the impact you will have on the fediverse. There’s not many whom I would trust more with it.
I’m glad to see Christian has kept his head in all of this craziness. If you pay attention, he has not once pointed the finger back at Reddit and said outright “they are trying to kill 3rd party apps”. He has been careful to keep the line open in case Reddit comes calling.
I hope he does something else past his Pixel Pals app because I am excited to follow him into his next project. We can all only hope it’s an app for the fediverse!
Christian did an interview a week ago with Snazzy Labs, worth a watch!
That’s a very informative interview, I hope it gets some reach. It’s the details that make this case so damning.
I’m so done with reddit. This won’t be the end I’m sure, it’s too big to die, but it can only get worse from here.
Myspace was huge and essentially died. Same with Digg. I don’t think Reddit is too big to die.
Facebook was a massive step ahead in UX compared to Myspace. Lemmy, thus far, isn’t. It’s actually more difficult to start using. The idea behind it is great and worth supporting, but there needs to be a way to streamline the process of signing up on an instance. The fact that over half of the well known ones require approval alone is enough to make someone give up.
