Technology

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.

And now I’m here after 17 years on Reddit. 🤷‍♂️

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?

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 :(

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.

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.

beehaw admins prepare for another wave of users probably lol

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.

Haha I literally just came from that post! I left the app, downloaded lemmy, made an account, and apparently get to pick up right where I started.

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.

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.

If you're here and you have the technical skills, please consider running your own instance. Beehaw and lemmy.ml are getting slammed.

God, I feel so bad for Christian. What a slap in the face….

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!

Sad news. I use Boost which I love. But won't be using Reddit anymore once 3rd party apps are cut off.

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.

The initial breaking of this story is what drove me to explore some Reddit alternatives, but this is worse than I realized. It's a bummer to see the enshittification principle on full display.

original post by Apollo's dev: https://tedd.it/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/_/

@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. :)

Begun, the migration has.

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.