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📣 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. ❤️ (reddit.com)

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[–] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ANapSoundsNice@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just going off of a quick stroll through the iOS app store (as of time of this post)

Apollo is the highest rated 3rd party reddit app at #11 in the News category (for comparison, the next highest was Narwhal at #75 within this same category)
Apollo does not however breach the top 200 apps app-store-wide. The official reddit app does at #52 overall. and enjoys the company of other ubiquitous apps like Hulu, Duolingo, Google Drive, and Disney+, all within 10 ranks of it on the overall list.
It does seem that reddit has crunched their numbers and gambled that 3rd party app users and the uproar they are in is a calculable loss against the groundswell of desktop and official reddit app users.

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[–] YellowGas@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As a Redditor, we built it. We can kill it.

Maybe. But it may well be, that Reddit has enough momentum to keep going with the shitload of dummy users who don't care about third party apps or quality.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For all we know, half the users over there (re)posting content could be bots that continue indefinitely, reposting more and more popular content from other sites like TikTok with more bots leaving comments that they stole from other posts. Reddit could in theory continue operating even with zero actual users.

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[–] TaNgEnT@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck Spez Fuck reddit.

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[–] Acester47@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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

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[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] lamp@berserker.town 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@dylan @twizzay @ocean rip

[–] twizzay@thisis.mylegendary.quest 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@lamp @dylan @ocean

I'm honestly so excited reading the comments in this thread. It is insane how much of an impact this app had on the apple community. It was even mentioned during the Apple Vision Pro unveiling at WWDC 2023.

I hope there's another mass exodus like all the users are saying there is going to be. That would be sooo cool.

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[–] manifex@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

'EXODUS - Movement from Ja people.'

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