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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never used Apollo but I'm really liking wefwef.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man, the astroturfing for wefwef around here is insane. I keep seeing it get brought up even in completely unrelated threads!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apollo had a huge loyal customer base.

Wefwef provides an almost perfectly cloned UI and is a mere WebApp.

For this reason a lot of users are so impressed with it that they are evangelising it.

The big problem with it that it requires users to submit their login credentials, which is a bit of a security issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately all apps are suffering that issue because Lemmy doesn't support OAuth2. It's one of the many things on the dev backlog, but hopefully it won't be too long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you say more about the security issues?Asking for a technology dummy friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You need to supply the app with your username and password. The app could theoretically steal your credentials when you enter them in order to login. It’s a good reason to not reuse passwords.

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

Also enable 2fa on your Lemmy account

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

Oof, I didn’t give this thought when I signed in. I luckily didn’t reuse my password here but that’s a great reminder, and good to know my exposure…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, maybe users are just excited about finding a place to land after the exodus, and an app that does feel very similar to Apollo.

I am using it based off seeing it mentioned a couple times and was very pleasantly surprised it’s similar to Apollo. Definitely makes the transition easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This app has totally blown me away. I always considered PWAs a gimmick, but they’re kind of a “now it works” version of the original iPhone 3rd party apps concept

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

PWAs have been held back by Apple for a very long time so I'm glad that started to gain traction now.