this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
1686 points (97.0% liked)

Technology

58303 readers
15 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1686
Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
371 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Netrunner 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There seems to be quite a fan club. I used RIF and Boost. All apps except the official were good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Whether you were an Apollo person or RIF or Baconreader or Boost, spez told us to go fuck ourselves and we left and we are now family forever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Us 3rd party refugees are all family, brother, no need to be divisive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apollo was so perfectly made that going back to regular reddit is just impossible, at least for a lot of us. Wefwef is blowing my mind, it's like Apollo never died