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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.
The decline of Reddit is a great shame. But the model of social media companies needing to IPO and make profit always hurts users in the long run. When Reddit do IPO more decisions will be made that make the experience worse for users simply because the interests of the platform owners will no longer be aligned with the interests of the users. We can’t know how things will work out but at least the fediverse model is new and is theoretically more sustainable.
I would love to see a fork of Apollo for Lemmy, call it Artemis. 😀
Seriously. They've released the backend code, why not release the frontend too? Open-source is definitely viable, if the developer just lets the project rot, they'll get nothing from it, but if they just slap the GPL on it and work with the community on a fork, then they would end up leading a nice open-source project. I'd love to see Lemmy gaining a bunch of users too; that's definitely be nice.
Absolutely unreal. This should seal the fate of Reddit.
If only... I would love nothing more than for it to become Digg 2.0.
My Reddit life started with Apollo 8 years ago, and it will end on the 30th. Thank you
First comment in the Fediverse. Fuck Reddit.
W comment.
fuck 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.
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).
You can't charge apps differently for the same stuff or people will sue you.
Reddit wants to bring them all down. I wouldn't be surprised if they take down the entire API in a year to save money.
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.
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
I suspect the reason they did that is that it might leave them open to anti-trust action. But if the price is just too high? Oh well, guess them's the breaks.
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 Apollo dev mentioned something like this but said he is burned out and had no interest in starting a competing thing.
He said that about making a Reddit competitor not about using lemmy API
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...
That’s, so sad. Apollo has so many users that are going to be heartbroken. Feel bad for Christian.
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.
This week has been full-on-crisis mode for us lemmy devs, and all devs of reddit apps. Reddit is not making things easy on us.
Hey, i just want to say that i really appreciate everything you're doing. Tons of awesome work.
And i know I'm not alone.
Where should i donate? Either time or money or both? Server costs, app dev costs(i know you also develop jerboa), etc.
But really i just wanted to say thank you. We all really appreciate your efforts. I know it's gotta be overwhelming at the moment so it's nice to just hear that once in a while. You're very much appreciated.
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.
nooo :(
another reason to stop using reddit
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.
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 :(
Yep, and this is what caused me to sign up for Lemmy! Hello!