Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
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Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
whelp, there it is
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And now I’m here after 17 years on Reddit. 🤷♂️
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You and me both.... I have seen that place through its ups and downs. From the narwhal bacon's at midnight to Jolly Rancher, Zoop and the swamps of drogba.
I finally left my account a few days ago and haven't been back since. The place is a shell of what it used to be and it's been really very refreshing have a scout about somewhere else.
Fuck greed..... It eventually ruins everything!
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15 for me. No ragrats.
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Welcome and enjoy your stay!
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I am exited about this new community & the potentials that can be created. Let's conceptualize, design & built the server & application side - organically as our needs evolve over time. !
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How do you get to the point where you're accusing Christian of blackmailing you in this situation? You're the 500lb gorilla who's driving all these app developers out of business. Even if you really feel like these app developers have been free riding on your largesse, how do you have so little perspective to be this petty and spiteful?
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I'm still not clear what the alleged threat was, that the app would... make API calls? earning reddit money? That Christian would say unfriendly things about the company that screwed him? What threat is an app developer to a corporation? It's just patently absurd.
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I listened to the recording, and read the transcript, and I can... I can see it. Not overtly, not intentionally - but the dev did not communicate clearly at all.
Twice the Reddit representative asking him to repeat himself, and still he failed to actually specify his intentions. The wording in the transcript never actually expanded what the dev was saying ('buy out Apollo'). The evasive language made it sound like a shakedown, 'pay me $10mil to make this all go away'.
I linked the dev's own transcript above, but the actual quotes from the dev:
I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset. Six months of use. We're good. [Low voice:] That's mostly a joke.
Okay, if Apollo's opportunity cost currently is $20 million dollars. At the 7 billion requests and API volume. If that's your yearly opportunity cost for Apollo, cut that in half, say for 6 months. Bob's your uncle.
I was just saying if the opportunity cost of Apollo is currently $20 million a year. And that's a yearly, apparently ongoing cost to you folks. If you want to rip that band-aid off once. And have Apollo quiet down, you know, six months. Beautiful deal. Again this is mostly a joke, I'm just saying if the opportunity cost is that high, and if that is something that could make it easier on you guys, that could happen too. As is, it's quite difficult.
Now, we know that what the dev is doing is essentially offering to outright sell Apollo to end the demand it represents to Reddit. He doesn't expect them to take it, but a lot of users asked if it were possible, and he's suggesting it anyway.
But the wording of all of this never specifies 'buying Apollo'. It sounds like he wants Reddit to like... pay him his 'protection fee'. I'm sure he means 'go quiet' as in like, 'go quietly into that good night' (shut down) or 'stop being so demanding' (be retooled), in fact he later clarifies he means the latter and the Reddit representative apologises profusely.
But man, that was worded so poorly, and he was given two opportunities to clarify, and he just... didn't. Only when the Reddit stand-in asked if he was suggesting Reddit buy his silence and compliance did he clarify that wasn't at all what he was saying.
It was completely unintentional, no doubt. But it was miscommunication of the highest order, and it damaged the lines of communication so irrevocably it probably incentivised Reddit to cease negotiations completely.
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The problem is this, from the transcript:
Me: I said "If you want Apollo to go quiet". Like in terms of- I would say it's quite loud in terms of its API usage.
Reddit: Oh, go quiet as in that. Okay, got it. Got it. Sorry.
Me: Like it's a very-
Reddit: Yeah, that's a complete misinterpretation on my end.
Me: Yeah. No, no, it's all good.
Reddit: I apologize. I apologize immediately.
The "threat" part was resolved right there. Steve just wanted to retcon the conversation as a way to dog Christian. He didn't anticipate Christian was gonna roll in with receipts.
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I listened to the recording and it was .. messy. Christian wasn't clear at all and it seems his intention of making what he described as a lighthearted jest fell like a lead balloon at the Reddit guys feet. To my mind it would have been a very important conversation and therefore if I was Christian I would have kept it business-like and clear. It still doesn't excuse Reddit for weaponizing the conversation and screaming blackmail which makes the CEO come across as a man-baby throwing a fit.
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I agree. When I read and listened to the conversation, it's mostly clear that it isn't what he meant but it could definitely be construed in a different way. I think it was a pretty poor choice of words to demonstrate how much of the userbase uses third party apps and how much sway they actually have.
That said, it is what it is. Reddit's PR team is definitely going to try to spin this as negatively as possible even if the Apollo dev is only trying to make a point. At least there were recordings so we can come to our own conclusions.
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Yeah, I felt the same when I read his post on Reddit. He worded things incredibly badly, and even I, when reading his post, got the impression that he wanted 10 million dollars to "make their problem go away". It almost feels like he was testing the water by being vague about it, before backpedaling when he realized they weren't into that.
[Edit] I get that he was probably trying to prove the point that their price was ridiculous and Apollo couldn't be costing them that much, but man. Terrible way to communicate that. You're not trying to sell your old TV to some guy in a bar here!
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It is sad to see an amazing app become rendered useless due to some companies greed. They were not even being reasonable with pricing nor did they really give the dev time to figure out what to do.
I really hope that everyone leaves reddit and comes to the fediverse. Mastodon had a huge boost and it completely replaced twitter for me. I am sure Lemmy can do the same.
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I'm hoping Christian ports Apollo to Lemmy. I'm not sure what the feasibility of doing so is but I'd actually pay a monthly subscription for the ability to continue using it
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I think he wants the apps to die with its legacy. Maybe he would make another app that does it. I hope he does and I would pay a modest subscription for it.
I hope that on June 30th, when it shuts down, the app doesn't just give an error message but instead displays some kind of farewell message.
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honestly, me as well
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This is a big reason why I'm here as of today. I just can't in good conscience support what Reddit is doing. I've been an Apollo user since it launched out of beta. I jumped at the chance to have paid Christian twice for both the original premium upgrade. And then the Ultra one later down the road. I just adore the app. When I switched to Android I still found myself missing it terribly. Since switching back to iOS. I've averaged 15-20 hours per week just using Apollo.
End of an era :(
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I’m a more recent Apollo user, having switched to iPhone last year. But I’m in the same boat. The third party apps are the only way to go on any platform.
I’ve also been a paying Reddit gold (now premium) user for, I dunno, maybe 10 years. It’s offensive that after all that, I can’t run the software I want to run to access the site. It’s a sign of enshittification.
And frankly, Apollo or not, Reddit isn’t what it used to be. It’s less friendly and welcoming than the narwhal days when /r/LucidDreaming was the hottest community. It’s more abrasive now, more childish. Like the rest of the internet, I suppose.
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It got popular and lost its sense of community. It used to be common, even in large subreddits, to see someone's username and recognize it again on another subreddit on the site. I made friends this way. It was sometimes less common, but you sometimes would see someone you knew IRL -- do you let them know?
Once karma became a currency, sometimes exchanged for real currency to buy influence, that's when Reddit started changing. Like many things, it fell for commercialization.
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Yeah, it is completely different than what it used to be. There would definitely be times when a hivemind mentality would get borderline insane. The first subreddit I discovered was r/atheism. And it was nice seeing other people like me. But I remember asking honestly about a girl I was dating at the time being Lutheran and wondering if it could work. Some were supportive. But some people were vile. It was then I could see how nuts it would get.
The communities are so large it has almost gotten too big for its own good. It's made the people who run the site into total monsters. I started off lurking the site about 14 years ago. And the finally made an account 3 years after. 11 years down the drain, I remember recommending the site to people all the way back then. Especially when I started discovering a lot of the meme subreddits that I would share with friends.
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Apollo is the epitome of Apple's HIG. Quite literally the best designed app from a UX standpoint on the App Store.
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I remember just falling in love with the design that day. I gave Christian money as soon as I could. I had been an Alien Blue user beforehand. And I just remember being so blown away by the speed of everything too.
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I was planning on staying on Reddit until I lost the ability to use Boost, but it already feels too far gone, and I'm struggling to find anything engaging on there. End of an era indeed :(
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Boost was the Android Reddit client I used the most. I thought it was great. I also liked Sync a bunch too. I paid for both and would rotate between them. But something about Apollo just stuck with me.
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I thankfully spend a good 90% of my Redditing on Desktop (old.reddit.com 4lyfe), but losing Boost on my phone hurts. Just spent the last hour hitting up all my most frequent subs and looking for all their discords or any alternate *anythings *they've set up regardless lol
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beehaw admins prepare for another wave of users probably lol
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Might be worth pointing people towards https://sh.itjust.works/ as they don't have too much users yet and the admin claims to have a lot of compute at their disposal.
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Signed up to Lemmy today, but held off to see if the Reddit situation was going to get any better. Seems like it won't, so one big hearty fuck you to them.
I'll try and contribute as much as I can to this community.-
Hoping Lemmy is able to re-create the feeling and community of early reddit. The reddit we're all refugees from felt vastly different ten years ago. All of the venture capital funding has ruined something that used to be a replacement for fragmented forum communities. Maybe a mass exodus to federated Lemmy instances can help re-create that early feeling.
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Yup, Christian's latest post about Apollo sealed the deal for me leaving. It's a bummer, but hopefully it leads to something new and exciting starting here! I'm guessing there's been a pretty big influx of Reddit refugees.
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I read a comment that said the admins are holding an AMA soon to "address the concerns of the community". Can't wait to see that turn into a mega-shitshow.
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"Popcorn tastes good"
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Yup. After reading about Apollo going the way of the dino I took a quick glance over the Boost for Reddit subreddit, and while it doesn't look like they've announced their shutdown it's realistically gonna happen unless Reddit backs out last second.
I saw a thread there where someone recommended Lemmy so here I am. Gotta say so far it feels just like Reddit did, in a good way.
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I'm in the same boat as you. I hope Lemmy can replace reddit for me completely, either way it will be a good thing for my reddit addiction I think.
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Wow, the fact Reddit is claiming he's blackmailing them for 10 million dollars is insane.
The fact the dev recorded it and posted it online for people to listen to themselves is great. God I love living in Ontario Canada where it's a single party consent to record others on the phone.
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I live in South Korea where it's also legal to record only with single party consent. It's not that long ago that I found out that it's not a universal thing. It should be.
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Where isn’t it single party consent?
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https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/
Here's just the US. There's up to 13 states with all party consent depending on how you define it.
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Well I'm done.
Warned the mod teams in the various subs I mod that I won't be back after the 30th. It's sad because I feel I am letting them down, but the knowledge I've gained from various communities and posts there isn't worth the price now.
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Recreate the communities here. Let other redditors know.
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It seems like the entirety of disgruntled Reddit is either going to join some form of Lemmy (Fediverse) or Tildes. At least with Lemmy we can still all communicate on the same platform. This entire event is completely splitting up and fracturing the communities we all had and liked on Reddit.
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Ironically, a couple had already been started! So, I guess I can sit back now and be a participant more than moderating.
I did write to one, letting them know I was available to help, but never heard back.
I have posted more on here in a week than I have in years on Reddit. I think it is best.
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Thanks for standing up for what you believe in. I've been a part of reddit myself for more than 15 years on different accounts and I just can't continue to go down the rabbit hole into VC-funded junk. The site seriously started to degrade after the huge venture capitalist investment (from Chinese firms no less) in 2019 and it's just gotten worse in the five years since then.
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Well, that gave me some useful context, thanks! I was mew to reddit, having resisted all social media since the dawn of twitter until almost 2 years ago with reddit.
I started a Mastodon account late last year in response to twitter's API madness, though I don't use it much. Refit was the one that got me in the end.
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Will you close your accounts?
I'm quite torn. The various gaming subs I mod have great teams, and are generally great communities. I legit feel like I am doing them a disservice by stepping down and closing accounts at the end of the month.
But doing the work for a company who has no regard for the reason it is a success stings more than the feeling I'll be abandoning some teams of passionate individuals.
I love the 'old' feeling of the internet on here. What I miss from forums in the '90's. I feel like this is the best decision.
But actions speak louder than words. They don't deserve users who they abuse.
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Signed up for Lemmy a couple days ago and I now’s the perfect time for my first comment. I’d like to give Reddit a hearty “fuck you” for running an awesome dev out of business with your lying and defamation.
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Multiple devs, but yeah...same here, I'm done with reddit.
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If you're here and you have the technical skills, please consider running your own instance. Beehaw and lemmy.ml are getting slammed.
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I do but dunno if I have the time or energy, as it would not only be the tech part, you'd have to also moderate the place yourself and I'm very averse to do that sort of thing again
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That’s really my main concern too. Also, I am already on call at my day job, I’d rather not sign up to do that for a passion project too.
One thing I’ve thought of is trying to set up a an instance that mirrors some subreddits via RSS. No comments though, because API access.
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If you don't have time or energy, but do have money, consider donating to this instance or others that vibe with what you're looking for!
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Are there docs or docker containers out there already for this? Anyone with an unraid server could be offloaded to their own instances if it gets published in their community apps store (it just needs a config file to make it work on there IIRC).
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There's actually an Ansible playbook for it, that will deploy Docker containers. It's pretty easy. Edit some configs, run the playbook and boom!
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I'm working on getting my instance up and running. I'm worried that by the time I do, I'll get slammed with new account registrations and won't be able to get things running smoothly.
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As an addition, this list can be interesting for potential new joiners looking for a smaller instance to register https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
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Skills and resources. The fact that Beehaw is slammed with only 451 users per day shows that running a Lemmy instance is pretty compute-intensive, so you'll need some beefy hardware.
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kbin looks nice, though this is the first I'm hearing of it 🧐
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God, I feel so bad for Christian. What a slap in the face….
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Indirectly in the face of every user
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You're not wrong. A little more impactful for Christian though considering the time and effort he put in to arguably the best Reddit experience outside of old.reddit. Oh well... time for a new kid on the block.
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"Swallow all your morals. They're a poor man's quality." - spez, probably
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This is really sad. I rarely posted on Reddit, and I mostly use it as an information source, but Apollo is how I mostly interacted with the platform, and when I did post, it was always through Apollo.
One silver lining is I found Beehaw as a result, and I like interacting and posting here, so I guess... thanks for being shit Reddit!
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First Tweetbot and now Apollo… Two apps that shaped my interaction on their respective platforms. Sucks….
Much like the rest of you, I’m investing myself to Lemmy and giving Reddit the finger. Assholes.
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Sync is going, too. Was my app for years and received a major overhaul just a few months ago. I'll miss the great user experience.
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Super sad about sync. Ljdawson won me over when he implemented a swipe action that I asked and am probably one of the few who uses it. Sad times.
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Sync was amazing! Not a chance in hell I'll use anything else.
I decided to setup a recurring donation to Beehaw in place of my reddit subscription.
In principle, I'm over reddit even if that backtracked. I've been reddit free for 4 days now.
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I'm not aware of any third party app trying to make the API pricing work. RIF and Red Reader are shutting down as well.
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RedReader mentioned that it may change to Lemmy client. So I hope that I can just change account and keep using it.
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Sad news. I use Boost which I love. But won't be using Reddit anymore once 3rd party apps are cut off.
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Same. There was a post on the boost subreddit indicating this place, so I expect there will be an influx (eg, me).
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😊👍. I'm looking at it like home is where the heart is. And my heart just isn't into Reddit pulling this stunt.
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@mint
Yeah, it is a disappointing thing what Reddit has done. Also hello to everyone at /c/Tecnology Beehaw.org on Lemmy from Fosstodon.org on Mastodon. :) -
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completely off topic but great pfp 👍🏾
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original post by Apollo's dev: https://tedd.it/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/_/
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Also on https://apolloapp.io/
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Don’t see it there what are you seeing
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Begun, the migration has.
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Here from the dev himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/?sort=confidence
Shows already that the blackout protest will change nothing.
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Still needs to happen though. Many subs are going dark for good as well, the more that do that the better.
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Yeah, I'm on the Tropical Weather discord and they announced they're going dark, likely for good.
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Going to miss using Apollo. Great design and Christian built it with the user experience first.
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And with it goes me using Reddit, too. The official app is just sooooo bad and I barely check Reddit on my computer.
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This was the final nail for me. I'm moving over to Lemmy full time and will be nuking my reddit account soon.
Anyone know what the best way to delete all reddit comments and posts is?
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That thing uses the reddit API, you better be quick.
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Thanks! I'm going to use this by this weekend.
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Thanks for this! Will be using this after the blackout
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Just deleting, or editing? I was going to delete all mine but now am thinking editing will send a better message.
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The comments from FlyingLaserTurtle in particular were just AWFUL. Just straight up gaslighting.
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RIF have announced they will shut down on the 30th too. No word from BaconReader yet (my time wasting app of choice) but I'm guessing they'll go down as well. Such a sad situation all round.
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The unfortunate underlying issue is the API pricing is by and large not sustainable. Even if a third-party application has not announced they cannot continue operations, the lack of announcement does not mean they plan to or continue. I can see the want of biding time and waiting in this circumstance, but ultimately I don't see any third-party application staying active in an above-board manner if the API pricing is launched as is.
Apollo, RIF, and Sync announcing they are shuttering adds additional pressure to the matter.
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Poor Christian. Would be cool if he developed Apollo for lemmy.
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It would be cool, but I doubt it would be a sustainable business for him right now.
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In case anyone wants to delete all their reddit comment and posts before leaving, I used this nice little product that did it automatically for me:
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Does this let you overwrite comments too instead of deleting?
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yes sir! it's one of the options. you can change all comments to whatever you like.
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I mean. That announcement might’ve convinced me to delete my account over there and dive in completely to Beehaw.
It might’ve done that 😉
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I saw the announcement then purged all comments and posts from both of my accounts, then deleted the accounts.
I'm out.
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Can you delete comments and posts in reddit itself or do you have to use some external tool?
Edit: nvm, I found https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite in the comments here
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i also might have used a github app to delete all of my posts and comments across all of my accounts. i might have done that before reading the post. however, after reading the Apollo author's post, there's no way i might go back to reddit. that is some manipulative shady af bs.
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I just deleted my account :)
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i also might have used a github app to delete all of my posts and comments across all of my accounts. i might have done that before reading the post. however, after reading the Apollo author's post, there's no way i might go back to reddit. that is some manipulative shady af bs.
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That was the final straw for me too. Currently purging all my accounts from Reddit now. I look forward to being a part of this community.
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Sync for reddit also confirmed to shut down
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This is so sad to watch ☹️. Isn't Reddit getting exactly what it wants, purging 3PAs?
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What they want is money. This is a means to that goal
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Holy shit. I just loaded up the op from the apolo sub and read through it. Then i made the mistake of attempting to read the comments. Absolutely impossible. Its like opening a flood gate and letting the ocean poor in!
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I'll use rif until the last day, but i've been spending much more of that time on reddit here, and less time on social media in general.
I'm honestly, sad for the developers who can no longer afford to keep their passion projects going, that's awful and fuck reddit for that. But personally, this is such a positive change I need in my life as a consumer of social media.
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So it begins...
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this is very sad, such a great app.
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If rif also shuts down i won't use reddit on mobile any longer.
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Unfortunately, RiF is shutting down too (link)
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It is unironically so over 🥲 Lets hope many people find their way to the fediverse.
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Gonna have to bring some popcorn for this.
Really sucks for the dev, as he does seems to be (or had been) really invested in what he was working on.
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you are the only person i have ever heard express that opinion.
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Sure perhaps it's not the best but for iOS it's as close to a native app experience as possible, and ad free.
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Yeah, I think possibly people don’t like swift ui and how that all looks tbf. After moving to iOS from Android it is a little bland compared to Material You.
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I think it's just that it's the most popular one on IOS, and a lot of the android ones are android only? And it was the first one whose story got picked up by the media.
Idk. I've never used it. But every app that isn't RedReader is clearly inferior, what are ya'll doing? /joke
This is just one of those harmless areas where opinions differ.
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I feel for Christian. This is awful. I've enjoyed his app for years now, along with BaconReader and Relay when I used Android. It is incredibly disheartening to see the slander that he faces, given how forthcoming he's been with Reddit administration.
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With the api getting paywalled does that obsolete PRAW too?
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Summarized from a recent call between Reddit leadership and some Reddit-partnered moderators/developers, there will be free non-commercial API access. As you need to provide your own credentials to authenticate when using PRAW, if you qualify under whatever is ultimately defined as "non-commercial use" you may continue to use PRAW.
Now, as to whether Reddit's recent actions bode any confidence for you in putting into any effort leveraging their API and/or other tools, that's a separate (and probably worthwhile) question to ask.
Whether PRAW's maintainers want to keep PRAW maintained in light of these announcements is also a separate question too.
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FYI, a lemmy iOS app, Mlem, is in active development, and we hope to be at 1.0 by July 1. It's heavily inspired by Apollo, but, obviously, with changes for lemmy.
Stay tuned and subscribe to c/mlemapp for updates!
Edit: I want to note that, since one of the biggest sticking points with 3rd-party apps has been both accessibility for the blind and deaf and mod tools, they're both on our minds as we design the interface. Getting both right will, of course, take time, but we want everyone to know that we fully intend to make our app usable for everyone.
Been using it for a few days, and it's very nice. Not feature complete, obviously, but what's there is great.
Glad you like it-- there will probably be many changes as soon as it gets updated (we're still figuring out what works and what doesn't). But, and everyone should be aware of this: v1.0's goal is "be functional and stable". Features will get added as we go (hopefully quickly). Apps like Apollo, RIF, etc, are mature, having been developed over years of work and user feedback. And while we can stand on the shoulders of giants like Christian Selig with regard to our direction and goals, we're just getting started.
That said, we're here to serve the community as we are also part of it, so we are doing all we can to build a great app!
there is also Jerboa on Android for folks who are on Boost, which is also going to inevitably disappear lol
I remember seeing somebody mention a Reddit-like wrapper for the Lemmy API so that existing Reddit clients can be interoperable with Lemmy without changing any code. Does anyone have more information about this project? It would be great if we could use open-source clients like Infinity (what I use for Reddit on Android) with Lemmy without rewriting them.
While I appreciate the effort that can go into building a good app... Jerboa sucks. Going from something like RiF to Jerboa is like having some teeth pulled... and being aware of all the little gaps where your teeth used to be.
I hope this changes in the future, in the meantime, I'm planning to write my own, in the middle of everything else I'm doing.
Yeah I'm a Boost user and I'm using Jerboa. It's not such a shock going from Reddit to here thanks to Jerboa.
This is excellent to hear. If you're still on reddit, you should post this to r/blind, as they've been in limbo about whether their tools will be granted an "exception" to use the reddit API and they may be looking into alternatives for their community.
I'll consider it, but feel free to x-post this there or make your own post. We're not exactly in PR mode right now since these tools and features are still in their conceptual stages and we're still trying to figure out how best to implement them-- especially the accessibility features. We're looking to bring on an accessibility specialist to the team to consult with us, so if anyone would like to help on that front Please let us know by joining our Mlem app chat on Matix.
We'll also be making a wider recruitment post to expand our dev team in the next few days, so keep an eye out for that, too! We're currently a tiny team of passionate volunteers, and there's a LOT to do!
edit: Link to GitHub project iif anyone wants to get a feel for where we are now.
While I'm coping that Christian "ports" Apollo over to work with Lemmy, I love what you guys are doing with Mlem. I'm in the beta via TestFlight and what's there works quite well (even though you can clearly tell it's early days).
I'm very new to iOS development, but if I find the time and motivation I might put in the hours to contribute a feature or two.
He mentioned in his post he isn't interesting in doing that and is instead focusing on his 2nd app. Sad but understandable
Good luck on that, and thank you for your work (saying this as an Android user, but every platform deserves a nice Lemmy client!)
Good to hear. I'm kinda hoping the Apollo source will become public once it closes. Anything that gets us close to that kind of experience would be great.
I'm the UX designer on the app, so the idea is to get close in terms of usability and style while making the app "our own". So, the app will, ideally, feel a lot like Apollo, but without outright copying it.
We want to take the best of Apollo (minus some things we don't like about it), and make something that's inclusive of how lemmy works and operates.
I have the Mlem app but I'm have problems logging in, during login it says I I'm logged into beehaw.org but then says can't connect to beehaw.org. Am I doing something wrong?
it may have to do with the popular lemmy instances being slammed right now. Until very recently, they weren't handling a lot of heavy traffic-- after Christian Selig's initial announcement about the Reddit API changes,, there was a massive spike in traffic from Reddexiters, and, now, again within the last hour since his latest post. Instance admins are expanding their capacity, but can only do so much, being independent volunteers running servers on their own.
Give it time. the servers are a bit bogged down right now.
@BrooklynMan @mint That's so cool! I'll keep an eye out for it
Testing right now! 👌
Do you need beta testers?
the beta is currently open in testflight, I believe. we'll be forming user testing groups in the near-future.
Just want to say I found and installed your app mlem on ios. So far so good. One bug I noticed is on my first login, after I closed the app, it deleted my logged in account. Logged back in and now working well. Forgot to do a bug capture but it hasn't come up again. Amazing work, and really appreciate you helping people get access to Lemmy as a community.
i’m already using mlem, and it’s quite nice! yes, it needs some polishing still, however it’s a great alternative to what i’ve been using for 3 years (Apollo).
really? i was under the impression it was an open beta. hmmm... I'll ask about that.
I just installed it by following the link on the website. The I could simply join the beta and install it via Testflight. No separate code needed. The link was already the invite.
The first time I tried the link from my iPhone(which already had TestFlight installed), it didn’t seem to work. I went back and tried the link a second time, and it did. The link I followed was here:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc
I had no problem clicking on the link on my iPhone. Just make sure you already have TestFlight installed.
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Loving the app so far! Exited to see how it develops over time