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Apollo - A beautiful app built for power and speed.
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Since many of us are trying to avoid giving reddit any traffic, this space can be used to discuss Apollo, our dreams of seeing it join the Fediverse, and to give our appreciation to @[email protected] for his incredible work.
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Reddit makes millions of dollars from other people's content without them seeing a cent of it
Yes, Reddit is all just user content, so I do not feel too bad for them, however it is true that Reddit’s free service in the form of their API made Christian potentially millions. However I do feel like there was a better compromise rather than what ended up happening.
And then gets mad when OpenAI uses that data. Like bro it wasn't your data in the first place.
Their product is a content sharing community website. That's what it's made to do.
Christians product was literally just taking reddit and putting it in an app. There's a pretty big difference.
That's a pretty dumb take.
He took a very ugly website and made it into an intuitive, beautiful, easy to use app. You can hate on him all you want, but he did an amazing job at making Reddit tolerable, and that takes work and effort.
He used the APIs they provided to do it, then they took them back when they realized they could profit more by not offering up APIs and only letting people go through their ad-filled junk app and site.
His app is just old.reddit.com as an app. It's just the reddit app but with more customisation and better gesture support.
lol you've either never used old.Reddit or never used Apollo. Either way, this is a worse take than your last one
I have, to both.. It's reddit with gesture support.
And a clean, intuitive UI. And support. And updates that listened to its user base. And no ad every 3 posts. It's supposed to be Reddit, if that's what you're saying it is like that's a bad thing then that's stupid.
The UI is no more "intuitive" than the reddit site or official reddit app. Like I said, it's reddit with gesture support.
At this point I'll assume you're just trolling, old Reddit is notoriously difficult to use and that's pretty common knowledge. It's off putting for most users, which is why they had to completely remake it with new Reddit.
If you have room temperature IQ maybe.
No, they did that because they wanted a flashier look.