📣 Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️

First comment in the Fediverse. Fuck Reddit.

I literally just signed up for lemmy after reading this post on reddit. I’m ready for reddit to crash. Decentralized apps seem like the way to go. It seems super short-sighted on Reddit’s part to be basically extorting all these 3rd party apps that are super popular.

Absolutely unreal. This should seal the fate of Reddit.

is facebookification a word? I am so sad to see this happen as a long time user of Reddit, been on there for...god, 11 years according to my profile awards. I see a lot of people saying this is the end of Reddit but I have to disagree, it is more like a new age. Reddit will now only be used by people who are fine with getting absolutely fucked with ads and close to nil moderation. I imagine it will be a husk of what it once was - it'll look the same but I'm sure it will just be repost land. It wasn't hard to see this coming, but I can't help but feel a sadness.

Do I need to go outside more? Probably.

RIP

Fuck Spez Fuck reddit.

I'm not too surprised that Reddit would go so far as to lie about somebody blackmailing them. This is a disgusting thing to do to someone who's bringing people to your website.

I have over a decade on Reddit across several accounts and if I can't use Sync on Android or Apollo on iOS then I just wont even browse on mobile. They already killed i.reddit and compact, their browser experience is intentionally shit to try and get you to install their app.

If the day ever comes that old.reddit is shut down I will overwrite all of my comments and delete my account

I think this is the end for reddit maybe after june 30th apollo users will be slowly migrate to official reddit app or another platform. This event will generate massive traffic for lemmy. The great thing about reddit is before the API rules reddit is called as mini internet. Everyone shared most valuable content and mods maintained the communities from spam their work is most valuable thing and thank you for all your work.

I would love to see a fork of Apollo for Lemmy, call it Artemis. 😀

I think more people are going to quit Reddit than migrate to anything else. Apollo is such an ingrained experience for iOS users that anything else wouldn’t be worth it.

RIF is closing down too. I'm using Sync for more than 8 years and it has not been yet announced but it will certainly shutdown too 😔

I’ve been a Reddit user for many years. It was a great run but I’m moving here. For now I’m missing quit a few favorite communities but that should improve with time.

Obligatory "f-ck Spez" and their silly little AI training thing

ReddPlanet dev came to the same decision. Gutted tbh. After more than 13 years I'm done for good with that place. Shoutout to all the 3rd party devs. You deserve better, and I hope you find success with any new project you might launch in the future.

Remember when in September 2017, Reddit decided to no longer be open-source? Well it was precisely to prepare for this specific scenario. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and we're finally on step 3.

My wife uses reddit, and couldn't be bothered to use anything other than the official app. Sadly she's in the majority with this. I'd say somewhere between 5-20% of mobile only/heavy reddit users will end up over here, and that's heavily dependent on whether or not the subreddits that they like come over here too. I see far too much content for the moment just linking back to reddit

ah shit. This massively sucks.

It would be cool to see Christian develop a lemmy client, kind of like how Tapbots made Ivory after the Twitter API closed down.

@dylan

It's definitely a shame that reddit is making these changes. The fall of reddit is going to have pretty negative affect for a lot of people.

I'm no fan of corpo platforms—I'd love more widespread adoption of open protocols and software—but I don't want _users_ to get hurt by the loss.

Instead of closing down it would be cool for 3rd party apps to switch to Lemmy but I know it would be a lot of work.

The more I dive the worse it smells. Willing to bet this situation would be less worse if they just came out and said "Alright guys sorry but we're banning 3rd party apps", instead they make more and more lies

Sad day, I’ve been using Apollo for years 😭

Makes literally no sense to me that Reddit couldn't afford to provide a price exception to 3rd party apps that have helped grow their community and website over the years. I've been using Reddit Is Fun for almost a decade now, and I'm not switching to their official app.

Companies are getting too comfortable when they have no competition. Really hope a Fediverse alternative will kick off like Mastodon did (ironically I'm placing my bets on kbin even though I use Lemmy. Seems like the simpler alternative that'll be easier to invite people over).

Well that seals it. I'm here for good. I'll even commit now that if Lemmy doesn't work out, still not going back.

I've used Relay for more than 8 years. /u/DBrady hasn't officially closed it down, but it is clear that it will be closed as well.

@dylan this part is WILD!

It appears spez was caught red handed lying

🫡 Sad to see it happen. Best of luck to the dev(s) in their future endeavours.

I would highly recommend that everyone run a tool like Redact over your reddit accounts. Deprive them of your user contributions if they're going to play this way.

I want Reddit to get what they deserve. Fuck 'em.

I really hope Christian gets through this. Working so hard on an app for years, only to see it get flushed down the toilet because of Reddit's ridiculous pricing and them not budging on it, has to be a nightmare to experience.

I also just signed up for Lemmy because of this announcement. I assume there are going to be at least a small number of people transitioning to Lemmy over the coming weeks. At least if the response from so many that they’re leaving Reddit entirely is anything to go by.

Just deleted all my Reddit accounts! Another social media to forget about... 🥱

That’s, so sad. Apollo has so many users that are going to be heartbroken. Feel bad for Christian.

The first one to fall, unfortunately. The conversation the Apollo Dev had with the admins seemed pretty bleak. I'm slowly accepting that Reddit needs to die. As a Redditor, we built it. We can kill it.

Yep, and this is what caused me to sign up for Lemmy! Hello!

Have been a satisfied user since 2021. It's short but sweet. Gonna move on to Lemmy. I can't wait for a stable release of Mlem!

I use Sync, but I can only imagine it'll be the same story there. It sucks, and I can't stand to use Reddit any way but through third party apps.

My Reddit life started with Apollo 8 years ago, and it will end on the 30th. Thank you

Well, this was exactly the outcome Reddit was aiming for with the exorbitant pricing. They want to force everyone to use their app. I hope it backfires on them.

This is huge, I don't have statistics but surely the most popular third party app.

I really hope reddit is hurt a lot by this move they're doing. It feels like it's probably too late for them to walk it back and that's probably a good thing. As much as I really enjoy a lot of the communities over there, I don't think it's healthy they remain on reddit, they clearly don't have the best interests of their users now, if they ever did. I know they've lost me and a lot of people who are moving over to lemmy, but I do hope a lot more follow and this hurts them.

It's sad to read, but perhaps this will be a reckoning for many of the major platforms. There has been a recent trend among corporate software developers to assume that they can simply replicate what third party contributors do for their platform and they don't appreciate the amount of effort it takes to properly replace. I'm hoping that this helps encourage migrations to open-source platforms like Lemmy.

I wonder if this could be viewed as anti-competitive. Reddit's control over the site gives them leverage to squeeze out others who engage with the userbase.

Others, like the founder of Apollo, are denied access to users by reddit's anti-competitive behavior.

When I clicked the link I got a pop up on the website prompting me to view this trending conversation on the reddit app,oh the irony...

Stop the enshitification! I feel like greed is ruining so many nice things lately. Streaming services, gaming and a lot of social media as well. More costs for more ads and increasingly bad content. First post on Lemmy and will try to advertise it to my friends, lets hope for a better take off than Mastodon!

this is funny because lemmy admin actually hopes reddit to reverse the decision. lemmy server isn't ready even by just only adding 500k user

suffering from succses

nooo :(

another reason to stop using reddit

I hope this apps could be migrated to the fediverse alternatives, like Tapbot has done with Tweetbot (now it works with mastodon). They have a lot of work done and it will help to bring and mantain more users to fediverse (I prefer free apps, but the more options to choose, the better)

I really, really hope a good amount of developers can convert their apps to work with the Lemmy API. Would be a shame to see all the wonderful work across the 3rd party apps go the way of the dodo :(

Reddit is all I've known for the past 12 years, this honestly just sucks. Started off with Bacon Reader and then moved to Relay. These apps frankly make Reddit so this is the death of Reddit for me and many others.

I hope Lemmy works out, I think the migration from Reddit to Lemmy (or alternative) is going to be much more difficult than it was from Digg to Reddit. Let's hope it goes as smoothly as possible.

@dylan @twizzay @ocean rip

I don't know if the headings are what people actually said to him or not, but it's very sad to see him beat up about just trusting what people who he's had a fruitful 8 year relationship with say. The blame shouldn't be on him for being positive about what to him, had been a perfectly acceptable long-standing business relationship. The fact that he can eat this cost and said he'll be fine means that he wasn't simply being blind to the realities of the world/

Reddit is probably acting this way to emulate Elon Musk in hopes he will buy it for billions of dollars.

I truly hope that mods just stop and let all of Reddit overflow with garbage bot posts. Let them try to IPO with a site full of useless garbage.

So it's actually happening...

'EXODUS - Movement from Ja people.'

This makes me so sad, Christian is amazing. I bought a lifetime subscription for Pixel Pals. I'm sure he's going to do many more great things.