Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.
I used Reddit for over a decade, and much of that was with Apollo. Not going back purely because of how they treated Christian and the other 3rd party devs
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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.
There seems to be quite a fan club. I used RIF and Boost. All apps except the official were good.
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.
After Apollo’s API token was invalid, I deleted my account. I know it’s a minuscule drop in the ocean for Reddit, but not matter, I’m with Lemmy and the fediverse come what may.
I think this is also true for a lot of long term power-users of reddit. So, LOTS of drops in the ocean.
I haven’t deleted my account, but I deleted every post and comment.
worth keeping your account on the off chance someone with a brain takes over and unfucks the place or you can find a good price to sell it to spammers.
I’ve also kept my account for the time being in case they want to revert any comments. Will be deleting in a few days.
Same, in the optional feedback box, I told them to fire Spez
Same. Can’t do much, but I think voting with our feet is the right thing to do.
Once Bacon Reader died, I stopped. It’s sad. I was subbed to a lot of fun and interesting subreddits. But fuck spez, that greedy little pig boy. Lemmy seems like reddit lite for the moment, but I’m sure it will grow.
Might be confirmation bias, but theres a lot more baconreader representation than usual. I wonder if theres a reason for it, or if its in my head.
Sync user here. I’ve walked away… Waiting on SyncForLemmy.
Apollo for Lemmy when?
Memmy has been giving me Apollo vibes and has made the transition way easier
hey, that’s me! I’m a redditor that walked away after Apollo shutdown!
Samesies, I wish someone at Reddit would leak how many users deleted their account on July 1st and leading up to it compared to a normal month of people coming and going.
ONE OF US!
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.
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
Thank you for the good in between app solution while waiting for Sync :)
Went straight from Apollo to wefwef. Smooth transition.
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Done with Reddit. Lemmy is the way
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Apollo shutting down forced me to confront my Reddit addiction. I used Reddit to escape my life. Even if it was just 5 minutes to take a break from work, or remove myself from reality to avoid anxiety or boredom. It became a crutch and an addiction. Instead of focusing on trying to change the moment or situation I’d escape instead.
It’s a lazy crutch to give yourself dopamine when in reality we all should be focusing on self improvement. Delayed gratification instead of immediate release. It sucks the various communities will die but at least my health can improve.
Until it is replaced with your shiney brand new Lemmy addiction.
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.
Everyone keeps commenting on how federation feels “emptier” than Reddit, but honestly all I did after 15 or so years on Reddit is doom scroll. I just lurked and felt miserable. There IS less content here and because of that I visit for a shorter period of time and that FREEs me up to do other, more productive things with people I know outside of social media. After the past few weeks of learning about the tech and the why and how of the land I think I like the balance here.
Yep, I’m one of them. RIP Apollo.
Me too, after ten plus years. Nice to be here (:
