Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    Mod for a medium-sized city subreddit, here. I have absolutely no idea how I’m going to be able to keep modding for it, now that apps like Apollo and RIF are dead. It is functionally impossible to mod effectively with the official app (let alone the mobile site).

    I’m not quite ready to just abandon the city community I spent so much time assisting - I mean, they’re my friends and neighbors, not just my subreddit subscribers. But if they move to Lenny en masse, I’ll join them, and say goodbye to Reddit permanently.

    • Dazza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Why not get ahead of the curve and start moderating/start a community here already?

      The positivity and enthusiasm on lemmy is so refreshing and each community is growing quickly. It’s like the days of Reddit when it was young.

      • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        There’s already a Lemmy community for the city, and I’m watching it closely to see if it takes off. So far, the signs are good, but the Reddit community is still a lot more active.

        Maybe that will change as uses realize we simply can’t effectively moderate it anymore.

    • grizzledgrizzly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I would love to start a community for my city here but I honestly can’t figure out how the syntax works to start one. Every time I try to create one I get an error.

      • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        When did you try? The devs are stamping out bugs as fast as they can. Maybe you ran into one (or several). If you hit the “Create Community” link at the top, you can build one.