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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] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Looks like I'm from the minority of people who browsed Reddit on Firefox Android. Although I lost nothing, I like the smaller cohesive community feeling of Lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apollo refugee here. Can confirm.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After 12 years, I walked away. No Apollo, no Reddit. I like it here just fine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you try wefwef? It’s pretty much has the same interface as Apollo

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I just stopped going to reddit. The only way O used reddit was apollo. I put lemmy icon on the aplllo place cos I kept unconsciously clicking it even though I knew it wont work.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I miss r/Cricket with the massive community of Indian Redditors, they are so funny and quick witted, so it was a quiet one this week in the small Cricket sub (or whatever you call it). But glad to get the ball rolling with Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean let's be real: Anyone with a fraction of self-respect would walk away from this dumpster fire after being repeatedly called noise by the idiots running the website.

But on the other hand I have to admit that Spez was completely right. This did blow over rather nicely for Reddit, since any publicity is good publicity and it seems like most of it is business as usual minus actually good apps.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We'll have to see what the long-term looks like. This was never going to be an instant death for reddit, but it absolutely could be the beginning of a slow decline into irrelevance. Digg never went offline, it just became useless

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Agree. The more I play around and get comfortable with Lemmy the more I realize I don’t need to “grieve” the loss of Reddit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I havent gone back since I've made my account. I've blocked reddit.com at the DNS level on my network and I'm avoiding the platform. I like the updates about the situation here but Honestly it would be amazing if they could mirror posts instead of link the original source since half of the posts just expect you to visit the r/sub it happened in which I refuse to do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, i walked away once my BaconReader stopped working. I wasnt going to use the Reddit app, or even get into the habit because it isn't that good.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I deleted my Reddit account right after I noticed Apollo stopped working. Mastodon and Kbin are filling the void nicely and I find I don't miss Reddit at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I was on Sync for Reddit on andrioid. Today I officially deleted my reddit account. The reason given "u/spez"...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Down with reddit. Such a self inflicted wound.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another former Redditor that walked away as soon as Apollo stopped working. I will never look back!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Indeed a very strange feeling. I only opened it to confirm Sync really is no longer working. Will keep my account for now (nostalgia?) but have not been browsing reddit since roughly a week. Feels good. But I'm sure official numbers are going to say "Engagement higher than ever at reddit".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Trying to make that my experience.

Declined my refund, deleted my Reddit history, now testing like 5 Lemmy clients on iOS, and I’ve only returned to the awful official app to check in on extremely niche subreddits that don’t have a community here yet.

I’ve eliminated my Reddit doomscrolling entirely which I’m happy about.

Also the Lemmy client testing is a lot of fun - it’s almost like Wild West Internet again - especially with a lot of the community just beginning to discuss moderation and administration and the emergent opinions forming. Lots of weird, cool sociology at play rn.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a more hate than love relationship with Reddit over the last decade. Quit and rejoined twice. I viewed it as a necessary evil so I could keep up with some smaller tech subreddits.

So I was more than happy to delete my account for good after the events of the last month. Looking forward to being here.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I’m a part of that group. I see 24 people wish I’d kick rocks haha, I get it.

Look, I’m sure most of the refugees agree with me. If we don’t fit in we’ll leave.

So far I’m digging Lemmy. I wish it was more active, but if it’s gonna grow it will.

It broke my heart to leave Reddit after 15-16 years, but it’s not that same place any more any way.

So, hello fellow Apollo refugees.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I stopped using reddit the second Apollo stopped working, and I don't think I've truly missed it once since then, I'm optimistic things will get far better with time as more people join lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left. Haven’t been back to Reddit since Apollo died.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm still reading /r/boxoffice (on desktop using old.reddit) so that I can follow the Summer of Flops, but that's about it. If a community exists and is reasonably active on both Reddit and Lemmy/kbin, I won't touch the Reddit version.

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