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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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[–] AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’ve always preferred mobile sites to apps. Not sure why. Maybe I just like to use Safari to manage all that I’m checking out.

But I stand with developers. Even Balmer knew developers are a major key to success. I’m not interested in using a site with such hostile ownership.

Fuck spez.

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[–] nightfury326@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Deleted my account and deleted some of the content I had on there. I didn’t have a big account anyway and mainly lurked.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Whatsit_Tooya@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not being able to browse on mobile killed it for me. Most of my browsing was on mobile via Apollo. I refuse to get the official app after this stunt so now I’m just not using Reddit.

Luckily wefwef is making the transition easy and familiar.

[–] annoyedcamel@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] 7two@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is no Reddit without Apollo for me. I can't stand the changes Reddit has made over the years, so I'm fine to leave.

[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Same here. Once Apollo stopped I stopped going. During the last month I was bookmarking the sites I was reading stories from that was being posted on Reddit. So now I go straight to the source.

[–] samwise@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Same. Ill be honest I tried to use reddit on my laptop and even old.reddit is just not as good as apollo was. I hope the fediverse can get app support like that in the future

[–] mythic_tartan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago
[–] sennish@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] GataZapata@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is not news. Please don't post these 'extremely slow news cycle' shit articles. Everyone who is here already knows this and has had it repeated to them ad absurdum.

This article is about as informative as 'Ted Cruz is a bad candidate' 'Random people are mad at rich folks' or 'water is wet'

[–] bit@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

To me third party apps is what made Reddit special. Now Reddit is just another social media platform, so I’m staying far away.

I’m enjoying pixel pals though, and I recommend others give it a go too

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I was a BaconReader user, but yeah when they took that away, that was the final straw for me. I can get my doom scrolling fix anywhere, thank you.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, "some." I dumped that shit like a bad habit when Sync died, and I'm far from the only one. Reddit has gone from Apollo to appal_ling_.

[–] Strangian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I’m certainly walking away for the most part, hopefully lemmy can become my daily scroller. That said though, I’ll definitely get on reddit again at some point. Its just too useful of a resource to never touch again. If I need some question answered and only reddit has it, I’m not gonna pass on it just to make a point that primarily hurts me. Other than that though, my primary reddit usage died with Apollo

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