Reddit app Apollo to fully shut down June 30
Reddit app Apollo to fully shut down June 30
Christian, Apollo’s developer, has written a long post detailing how the talks have broken down, as well as going forward.
Also, it sounds like Reddit has been lying through their teeth about a bunch of stuff around timelines and smears they’ve publicly made about Christian, but Christian brought receipts and phone call records.
Hot damn that’s insane, shit is really going down. All a darned shame really, I guess nothing lasts forever and thank goodness for this option of Lemmy! Apollo is the app I used, it’s great and I love it. Hope Christian can make something for Lemmy, that would be awesome.
I am in the same boat. Do you have an app for Lemmy on iOS yet?
Mlem is still in pretty early yet active development and missing a bunch of features or isn’t yet super intuitive, but there’s a test flight for it. I’ve been using it for a week or so now. https://join-lemmy.org/apps/
Mlem is improving quickly. But I’m hoping lemmy can have reasonably comparable apps to Apollo someday (meaning similar UI; fewer features is okay)
Very sad news, that’s also why I’m here finally.
The good side is, that with reddit “gone”, a platform like this will get a large influx of users and the well-deserved spotlight. Scrolling all over lemmy I felt a child-like excitment of discovering something new and great, which is so rare these days.
Also, just because something doesn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. We got to cherish Apollo and reddit for many years, now the time has come to make way for something new.
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I use it too and it seems very early/limited still. Seems to work for comments and likes at least though.
The developer of RiF (another big client) is officially saying the same.
https://reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/144gmfq/rif_will_shut_down_on_june_30_2023_in_response_to/
I'm trying to use Mlem iOS app, but it is still in early development...