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[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

Spot fucking on.

Ever have a good app? Something you like using but it's by a corporation but that's ok, because it's a good app and does what you want? And then they start adding more features to it, and it slows down, and it's more annoying and it keeps offering services you don't want, and it changes and it morphs and it becomes a shit app.

Hell I've watched Whisk become something I liked using to something worthless now it's Samsung food... Switched to using CopyMeThat which actually also gets me recipes from sites that you can't just read the recipes from, and that's ALL it does (well recipe book/shopping cart/meal planning, which is what it's designed for.)

I'm just sick of "How do we make more money" instead of just being an app that does what it says. Gaming is going down the same hole, sadly.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

This is the inevitable long term goal and result of capitalism.

[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

This is the result of shareholders. Capitalism doesn't have to turn into this and people can have small businesses that are comfortable and don't grow. But when you get investment involve the question is always "how do you 'grow this business' so I can get a ROI".

There's a few cases where that's not the case, but the majority of the mindset of the modern business world is fast returns, rather than sustainable growth.

[-] Morefan@retrolemmy.com 2 points 5 months ago

This is the inevitable long term goal and result of CORRUPTION.

I'm not advocating for capitalism.

Corruption exists in both capitalistic and socialist systems.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Always going to upvote someone talking about CopyMeThat. Been a premium member for over a decade, it was a game changer for us.

[-] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I also quit whisk when it became samsung food. Does CopyMeThat let you have shared lists with other people?

[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It does have a "Community" aspect, but honestly I think it's quite weak on that. however if you have someone you know and their recipes are public you can see them, but not in any organized sense.

[-] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Dang, the shared grocery list and meal planning was the best part of it.

[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

My wife and I just share our account which has worked perfect though I'm really the one who cooks so the recipe list becomes mine as well.

[-] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That sounds nice, I'll try that out

[-] Hexagon@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago

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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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